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    Zoology: The joys of spinelessness

    Lisa-ann Gershwin delights in two books on marine invertebrates.

    Lisa-ann Gershwin in Nature (2017)

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    Cotylorhiza erythraea Stiasny, 1920 (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cepheidae), yet another erythraean jellyfish from the Mediterranean coast of Israel

    An unfamiliar scyphozoan jellyfish species has been observed along the Mediterranean coast of Israel since 2003. Morphological characters such as the densely anastomosed radial canals and the stalked cupped ap...

    Bella S. Galil, Lisa-Ann Gershwin, Moshe Zorea, Amit Rahav in Marine Biodiversity (2017)

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    Role of winds and tides in timing of beach strandings, occurrence, and significance of swarms of the jellyfish Crambione mastigophora Mass 1903 (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Catostylidae) in north-western Australia

    Very large swarms of the red jellyfish Crambione mastigophora in north-western Australia disrupt swimming on tourist beaches causing economic impacts. In October 2012, jellyfish stranding on Cable Beach (density ...

    John K. Keesing, Lisa-Ann Gershwin, Tim Trew, Joanna Strzelecki in Hydrobiologia (2016)

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    Abundant box jellyfish, Chironex sp. (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropidae), discovered at depths of over 50 m on western Australian coastal reefs

    Box jellyfish cause human fatalities and have a life cycle and habit associated with shallow waters (<5 m) in mangrove creeks, coastal beaches, embayments. In north-western Australia, tow video and epibenthic ...

    John K. Keesing, Joanna Strzelecki, Marcus Stowar, Mary Wakeford in Scientific Reports (2016)