First record of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia for Chile

Verena Häussermann; Michael N. Dawson; Günter Försterra

First record of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia for Chile

Verena Häussermann^*
, Michael N. Dawson
, Günter Försterra

^*Corresponding author for this work

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
University of California Merced

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Abstract

The scyphozoan genus Aurelia has been recorded as occurring circumglobally between 70°N to 55°S. However, it has not been reported from the Pacific coast of South America. Here, we describe the occurrence of Aurelia in the fjords of Chile and use morphology and a simple "DNA barcoding" sequence similarity comparison to identify the species as most probably A. aurita. This species likely is not indigenous to this region.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-7
Number of pages	5
Journal	Spixiana
Volume	32
Issue number	1
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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