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Catostylus tagi

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Catostylus tagi
Specimen at Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Order: Rhizostomeae
Family: Catostylidae
Genus: Catostylus
Species:
C. tagi
Binomial name
Catostylus tagi
Haekel, 1869

Catostylus tagi is a species of jellyfish from warmer parts of the East Atlantic Ocean and since the 2000s also found in the Mediterranean Sea.[1][2] It is the only member of the family Catostylidae that is found in Europe,[3] and it is a common species in the Tagus estuary in Portugal. [4] It has collagen in its bell which is currently being researched to see if it has biomedical uses as an intercellular matrix. The species is named after the Tagus river.[5]

Description

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Typical Catostylus with chunky appendages and tentacle to go with each. This jellyfish has a sting that causes light pain and a skin rash, but generally poses no serious threat.[3] It is up to 65 cm (26 in) in bell diameter,[6] but a more typical size is 25 cm (10 in) in diameter and 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) in weight.[3] Its colour is variable and can be blue-white, cream, brown, or off-white. The exumbrellar grooves are reddish or purplish brown.[7] C. tagi has gonads along the edge of its stomach in an X shape. It has the octant formation typical of Catostylus jellies, the height of the octants are also variable.

Food

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Eats both zooplankton and phytoplankton, certain crustaceans, small fish, and marine snow.

Biomedical use

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Its bell collagen is currently being researched for use as an intercellular matrix. The collagen is made up of 1/3 glycine and most of the rest is water and other amino acids, its amino acid content is very small. The collagen is denatured as soon as it reaches 29.9 °C (85.8 °F).

References

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  1. ^ Brotz, L,; and D. Pauly (2012). Jellyfish populations in the Mediterranean Sea. Acta Adriatica 53(2): 211–230.
  2. ^ Kienberger, K.; and L. Prieto (2018). The jellyfish Rhizostoma luteum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827): not such a rare species after all. Marine Biodiversity 48(3): 1455–1462.
  3. ^ a b c Parracho, T.; and Z. Morais (2015). Catostylus tagi: partial rDNA sequencing and characterisation of nematocyte structures using two improvements in jellyfish sample preparation. J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis. 21: 40. doi:10.1186/s40409-015-0037-4
  4. ^ Gueroun, Sonia K. M.; Torres, Tatiana M.; Santos, Antonina Dos; Vasco-Rodrigues, Nuno; Canning-Clode, João; Andrade, Carlos (2021-09-13). "Catostylus tagi (Class: Scyphozoa, Order: Discomedusae, Suborder: Rhizostomida, Family: Catostylidae) life cycle and first insight into its ecology". PeerJ. 9: e12056. doi:10.7717/peerj.12056. hdl:10400.8/7541. ISSN 2167-8359. PMID 34603850.
  5. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Catostylus tagi (Haeckel, 1869)". marinespecies.org.
  6. ^ Palomares ML, Pauly D, eds. (2019). "Catostylus tagi" in SeaLifeBase. June 2019 version.
  7. ^ Boltovskoy, D., editor (2019). Catostylus tagi. Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean. Marine Species Identification Portal. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  • Boltovsky, T., Bernardo Abiahy, Viviana A. Alder, Martin V. Angel, Renate Bernstein, Dennis Binet, Demetrio Boltovsky, Jean Bouillon, Janet Bradford-Grieve, John-Paul Casanova, Paul Cornelius, Jose R. Dadon, Christina Deponte, Graciela B. Esnal, Maria Alamo, Adilson Fransozo, Mark Gibbons, Ray Gibson, and Cristoph Helemben. "Marine Species Identification Portal : Catostylus tagi." Marine Species Identification Portal : Catostylus tagi. UNESCO, n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2014.
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