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Scientific Name:
Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld 1884 (ITIS)
Common Name:
White spotted jellyfish, Australian spotted jellyfish
Native To:
Australia and the Philippines (Graham et al. 2003)
Date of U.S. Introduction:
First discovered in 1981 in California (Carlton and Geller 1993)
Means of Introduction:
Probably entered from the Pacific Ocean through the Panama Canal on the hulls of ships (Graham et al. 2003)
Impact:
Preys on native species; negatively impacts shrimp industry by clogging nets and damaging fishing equipment (Ocaña-Luna et al. 2010)
Current U.S. Distribution:
Southeastern U.S. coastal region
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University of Georgia. Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.
Selected Resources
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Partnership
IUCN. Species Survival Commission. Invasive Species Specialist Group.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Galveston Bay Estuary Program; Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC).
Texas State University System. Texas Invasive Species Institute.
Bishop Museum. Hawaii Biological Survey; University of Hawaii.
Federal Government
Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce.
Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Marine Invasions Research Lab.
Professional
Citations
- Carlton, J.T. and J.B. Geller. 1993. Ecological roulette: the global transport of nonindigenous marine organisms. Science 261:78-82.
- Graham, W.M., D.L. Martin, D.L. Felder, V.L. Asper, and H.M. Perry. 2003. Ecological and economic implications of a tropical jellyfish invader in the Gulf of Mexico. Biological Invasions 5:53-69.
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Phyllorhiza punctata. [Accessed Sep 10, 2014].
- Ocaña-Luna, A., M. Sánchez-Ramírez, and R. Aguilar-Durán. 2010. First record of Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa, Mastigiidae) in Mexico. Aquatic Invasions 5(suppl. 1):S79-S84.