Recent strandings of the giant jellyfish Rhizostoma luteum Quoy and Gaimard, 1827 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts

Marine Biology

Volumn 160, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3241-3247

  Prieto, Laura ^a   Armani, Andrea ^b   Macías, Diego ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MARINAS DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; JELLYFISH; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; PHYLOGENETICS; STRANDING; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ALBORAN SEA; ATLANTIC COAST [MOROCCO]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AFRICA]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF CADIZ; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOROCCO; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

CNIDARIA; OCTOPUS; RHIZOSTOMA LUTEUM; RHIZOSTOMA OCTOPUS; RHIZOSTOMA PULMO; RHIZOSTOMEAE; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 84888295942     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-013-2293-6     Document Type: Article

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