Intraguild predation by polyps of three scyphozoan jellyfish: <italic style="font-style: italic">Nemopilema nomurai</italic>, <italic style="font-style: italic">Aurelia coerulea</italic>, and <italic style="font-style: italic">Rhopilema esculentum</italic>

Changsheng TANG; Song SUN; Fang ZHANG

doi:10.1007/s00343-019-9079-8

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Intraguild predation by polyps of three scyphozoan jellyfish: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum

Ecology | Updated：2023-04-27

- Intraguild predation by polyps of three scyphozoan jellyfish: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 38, Issue 6, Pages: 1755-1761(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  2.Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China
  3.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  4.Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  5.Jiaozhou Bay Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
- Author bio：
  
  SUN Song, sunsong@qdio.ac.cn
  ZHANG Fang, zhangfang@qdio.ac.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-019-9079-8
  CLC：
- Received：22 March 2019，
  
  Accepted：30 June 2019，
  
  Online First：25 October 2020，
  
  Published：2020-11
- Accepted：
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Changsheng TANG, Song SUN, Fang ZHANG. Intraguild predation by polyps of three scyphozoan jellyfish: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020, 38(6): 1755-1761.
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Changsheng TANG, Song SUN, Fang ZHANG. Intraguild predation by polyps of three scyphozoan jellyfish: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020, 38(6): 1755-1761. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-019-9079-8.

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Abstract

Jellyfish blooms occur worldwide and have resulted in serious problems in tourism

fisheries

coastal industries

and the marine ecosystem. The life cycle of scyphozoan jellyfish consists of a pelagic medusa stage and a benthic polyp stage. Success of asexual reproduction of the polyps determines directly the number of medusae; thus

the polyp stage is the key to understanding the population dynamics of medusae.

Nemopilema nomurai

Aurelia coerulea

and

Rhopilema esculentum

are three scyphozoan jellyfish commonly inhabit in Chinese coastal waters. Polyps of

A. coerulea

are easily visible

while those of

N. nomurai

and

R. esculentum

remain yet to be found in the wild. However

distribution of the medusa indicates that the polyps of all three species may occur together. To evaluate the distribution pattern of polyps of the three species and explore intraguild predation by the polyps

we conducted a laboratory experiment that considered the attachment sequence and size relationship of calyx diameter of the polyps. We found that the polyps of

A. coerulea

preyed on polyps of the other two species in all treatments

except when polyps of

R. esculentum

were bigger than those of

A. coerulea

. The polyps of

R. esculentum

preyed on the polyps of

N. nomurai

only when polyps of

R. esculentum

attached first and were bigger than those of

N. nomurai

. Colonies of

N. nomurai

polyps were rarely found in the places inhabited by

A. coerulea

polyps. In addition

A. coerulea

polyps are known to inhabit at depths of less than 20 m in coastal sea

thus

we speculate that

N. nomurai

polyp colonies might occur at depths of more than 20 m. Therefore

our finding that polyps of

A. coerulea

aggressively preyed on polyps of other species may help understand other such systems of jellyfish bloom in the world.

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Intraguild predation by polyps of three scyphozoan jellyfish: Nemopilema nomurai, Aurelia coerulea, and Rhopilema esculentum

DOI：10.1007/s00343-019-9079-8

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