Nausithoe aurea

Nausithoe aurea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Scyphozoa
Order:	Coronatae
Family:	Nausithoidae
Genus:	Nausithoe
Species:	N. aurea
Binomial name
Nausithoe aurea Silveira and Morandini, 1997

Nausithoe aurea is a species of scyphozoan found off the southeastern coast of Brazil. The central disc has been measured to be 10.5 millimetres. N. aurea is transparent with yellow and brown spots located around the gonads.^[1] N. aurea can reproduce either asexually by strobilation or sexually.^[2] Either ephyrae or planuloids may be produced by strobilation; only ephyrae can produce the medusa form.^[3] Strobilation can be induced to occur, it has been found, when food is abundant. In polyps, a large availability of food leads to strobilation if it is not regulated.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Nausithoe aurea". Marine Species Identification Portal. http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=zsao&id=2421. Retrieved 12 May 2010. 
2. ^ Morandini, André C.; Fábio L. da Silveira (2001). "Sexual Reproduction of Nausithoe aurea. Gametogenesis, egg release, embryonic development, and gastrulation.". Scientia Marina 65 (2): 139–149. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1679-87592007000300007&script=sci_arttext. Retrieved 12 May 2010. 
3. ^ Stampar, Sérgio N.; Fábio Lang da Silveira; André C. Morandini (July/September 2007). "Asexual reproduction of Nausithoe aurea (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Coronatae) induced by sterile polystyrene dishes". Brazilian Journal of Oceanography (São Paulo) 55 (3). doi:10.1590/S1679-87592007000300007. ISSN 1679-8759. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1679-87592007000300007&script=sci_arttext. 
4. ^ Stampar, Sergio N.; Fábio L. da Silveira (2006). "The survival of Nausithoe aurea Silveira & Morandini, 1997 under extended periods of starvation". Investigaciones Marinas (Valparaíso) 34 (2): 3–8. http://www.scielo.cl/pdf/imar/v34n2/art01.pdf. Retrieved 13 May 2010.