Mass occurrence of the cubomedusa Copula sivickisi (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) at Seto Harbor, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan in summer of 2013, a recent example of global warming
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2014
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Morandini, André Carrara
Stampar, Sérgio Nascimento [UNESP]
Kubota, Shin
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More than 200 very young medusae of Copula sivickisi (Stiasny) were collected within totally 60 minutes at two nights in June, 2013 at the Seto Harbor, Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan. This mass occurrence might be related to recent global warming at Shirahama, known as the northernmost distributional locality of this cubozoan species. It is assumed that the polyp stage of this species may live in the surrounding areas, because there jellyfish were small size (most are less than 1.6 mm height) that was conceivable as the newly released one from the polyp.
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Box jellyfish, Medusa, Plankton, Polyp, Global warming
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Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, v. 42, p. 108-111, 2014.