Mutlu Erhan, ÇaĞatay I Tulay, Olguner M Tunca, Yilmaz Hasan Emre
Akdeniz University, Fisheries Faculty, Main Campus, Antalya, Turkey.
Zootaxa. 2020 Jun 11;4790(2):zootaxa.4790.2.2. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.2.
A new species of Chrysaora is described from five specimens collected off Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during December 2018. The species is characterised by its pale exumbrella, milky to creamy in colour, bearing faint and narrow markings, strap-like marginal tentacles, semi-rounded to tongue-shaped lappets, and a prominent dark spot on the exumbrella above each rhopalium. Analysis of the COI gene indicates that it may be most closely related to Chrysaora africana (Vanhöffen 1902), from which it is nevertheless 10.2 % different. It is unclear whether the species represents a previously undetected and endemic species from the Mediterranean, or whether source populations are located in the Red Sea and the northern Indian Ocean.
2018年12月在东地中海土耳其沿海采集的5个标本中描述了一种新的金黄水母属物种。该物种的特征是其伞上表面呈浅色，从乳白色到奶油色，有微弱且狭窄的斑纹，带状边缘触手，半圆形到舌状的叶状体，以及每个感觉棒上方伞上表面有一个明显的黑点。对细胞色素氧化酶亚基I（COI）基因的分析表明，它可能与非洲金黄水母（Vanhöffen，1902年）关系最为密切，但两者仍有10.2%的差异。尚不清楚该物种是代表地中海以前未被发现的特有物种，还是其源种群位于红海和北印度洋。
