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标题：First records of Carybdea marsupialis proliferation (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) along the eastern Tunisian coast (Central Mediterranean)
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作者：S. K. M. Gueroun ; M. J. Acevedo ; O. Kéfi-Daly Yahia 等
期刊名称：The European Zoological Journal
电子版ISSN：2475-0263
出版年度：2015
卷号：82
期号：3
页码：430-435
DOI：10.1080/11250003.2015.1045945
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：The cubozoan jellyfish Carybdea marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758 is recorded for the first time from the eastern Tunisian coast (Hammamet beach). A few specimens (three adult individuals) were first recorded in July 2005. In spite of several jellyfish monitoring campaigns carried out along the Tunisian coasts in recent years, new records of C. marsupialis from the same location were only made years later, in July and August 2014, consisting of aggregations of adult jellyfish (mean density of 1.1 ± 1.0 ind. m−3), which may pose a severe threat to bathers due to their painful stings. The mean morphometric parameter values from 55 C. marsupialis specimens sampled during the same period are reported here, and the possible causes for box jellyfish proliferation in the Hammamet coastal zone are also discussed.
关键词：Box jellyfish; Medusozoa; outbreaks; marine stingers; Northern African coasts