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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	11 135004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Cassiopea ndrosia   Agassiz & Mayer, 1899
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies Family: 11 135 Cassiopeidae (jellyfish) - show full list Common Name: [an upside-down jellyfish] Organism Type: an upside-down jellyfish Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 11 135901     Cassiopea spp.

Taxon Notes:	Originally described from Fiji, and recorded from Japan to Australia. It is a warmer water species, and the record from South Australia is from a power station thermal waste water plume, and it is likely to be an accidental introduction there via shipping. Recent records from Lake Illawarra, NSW, are also likely to an accidental introduction.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:287169 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Gershwin, L.-A., Zeidler, W., Davie, P.J.F., 2010. Medusae (Cnidaria) of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia., Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature, Vol. 54(3): 47-108.
Scientific Name verified against:	Keable, S.J., Ahyong, S.T., 2016. First records of the invasive "upside-down jellyfish", Cassiopea (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cassiopeidae), from coastal lakes of New South Wales, Australia., Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 68(1): 23-30. . dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.68.2016.1656 doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.68.2016.1656