Invasion History

First Non-native North American Tidal Record:
First Non-native West Coast Tidal Record:
First Non-native East/Gulf Coast Tidal Record:

General Invasion History:

None

North American Invasion History:

Description

None

Taxonomy

Taxonomic Tree

Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:   Cnidaria
Class:   Scyphozoa
Order:   Semaeostomeae
Family:   Cyaneidae
Genus:   Drymonema
Species:   larsoni

Synonyms

Drymonema cordelio (Antipa, 1892)
Drymonema dalmatinum (None, None)
Drymonema gorgo (Muller, 1883)
Drymonema victoria (Haekel, 1881)

Potentially Misidentified Species

Ecology

General:

Polyp and Medusa

Food:

Aurelia spp.; Cyanea; Phyllorhiza punctata

Trophic Status:

Carnivore

Carn

Habitats

General HabitatUnstructured BottomNone
Tidal RangeSubtidalNone
Vertical HabitatEpibenthicNone
Vertical HabitatPlanktonicNone

Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Minimum Temperature (ºC)20Experimental, polyps (Ortman et al. 2001)
Minimum Salinity (‰)25Experimental, polyps (Ortman et al. 2001)
Broad Temperature RangeNoneWarm temperate-Tropicla
Broad Salinity RangeNonePolyhaline-Euhaline

General Impacts

Regional Distribution Map

Bioregion Region Name Year Invasion Status Population Status Vectors
CAR-IV None 1973 Native Established
NA-ET4 Bermuda 1986 Native Unknown
CAR-I Northern Yucatan, Gulf of Mexico, Florida Straits, to Middle Eastern Florida 2000 Native Established
CAR-III None 0 Native Established
CAR-VII Cape Hatteras to Mid-East Florida 1885 Native Established

Occurrence Map

OCC_ID Author Year Date Locality Status Latitude Longitude

References

Bayha, Keith M.; Dawson, Michael N. (2010) New family of allomorphic jellyfishes, Drymonematidae (Scyphozoa, Discomedusae), emphasizes evolution in the functional morphology and trophic ecology of gelatinous zooplankton, Biological Bulletin 219: 249-267

Larson, Ronald J. (1987) First report of the little-known scyphomedusa Drymonema dalmatinum in the Caribbean Sea, with notes on its biology., Bulletin of Marine Science 40(3): 437-441