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Astrohydra japonica Hashimoto, 1981

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1985

Since rediscovered

 

Distribution

Nomorinoike, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Hashimoto, Hiroshi. (1981). A new fresh-water hydroid, Astrohydra japonica. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 54(3): 207-212.

 

Other references:

Hashimoto, Hiroshi. (1985). Medusa of Fresh-water Hydroid, Astrohydra japonica Hashimoto. Zoological science 2(5): 761-766. [Abstract]

Cheryl Lewis, Masao Migita, Hiroshi Hashimoto and Allen G. Collins. (2012). On the occurrence of freshwater jellyfish in Japan 1928–2011: eighty-three years of records of mamizu kurage (Limnomedusae, Olindiidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 125(2): 165-179. [Abstract]

Peterson, Miles I et al. (2022). A description of a novel swimming behavior in a dioecious population of Craspedacusta sowerbii, the rediscovery of the elusive Astrohydra japonica and the first genetic analysis of freshwater jellyfish in Japan. Plankton and Benthos Research 17: 231-248. https://doi.org/10.3800/pbr.17.231

 

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