White Spotted Jellyfish | National Invasive Species Information Center

Australian spotted jellyfish - Photo by Harriet Perry; Gulf Coast Research Laboratory

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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Partnership

IUCN. Species Survival Commission. Invasive Species Specialist Group.

CAB International.

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.

DOI. USGS. Wetland and Aquatic Research Center.

Professional

California Academy of Sciences.

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.