Tamoya gargantua
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Cubozoa |
| Order: | Carybdeida |
| Family: | Tamoyidae |
| Genus: | Tamoya |
| Species: | T. gargantua
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Tamoya gargantua, commonly known as the warty sea wasp, is a venomous jellyfish in the genus Tamoya. Its tentacle height is 22 cm, and the width of the bell is 13 cm. It is found on the shores of Eastern Africa, Samoa, and some of the islands in the Indian Ocean. They can be found in bays in those areas.
Description
[edit]T. gargantua has a bell that can measure up to 22 centimeters in height and 11 centimeters in diameter: these are large dimensions among the box jellyfish and have earned it its name.[3] The cap is transparent, with small, whitish, wart-like muscular extensions (pedalia) at the four corners of the square base, separated by a lace-like membrane.[4] From each pedalium a tentacle grows, about twenty centimeters in length. The sting from this species causes a strong and long-lasting pain.
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Adult medusae are pelagic, occasionally approaching the coasts of the Indian and western Pacific oceans, and can become frequent in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.[5] This species lives in shallow inlets. Young specimens come to the surface at night, while they remain on the bottom during the day. T. gargantua could be conspecific with the Atlantic Tamoya haplonema.(Richmond, 1997)[6][5].
T. gargantua as described by Ernst Haeckel came from the Samoan Islands, and both Henry Bryant Bigelow and other naturalists agreed in identifying this species as T. bursaria and the various T. alata previously described in the Indo-Pacific.[5] The name T. haeckeli is a synonym invented to distinguish the species from T. gargantua "sensu" Lesson (1829), different in description and not belonging to the genus Tamoya.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Tamoya gargantua. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ "Tamoya gargantua". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ Uchida, T. (1970). "Revision of Japanese Cubomedusae" (PDF). Publ. Of Seto Mar. Biol. Lab. 17: 293. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- ^ M. Richmond (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation (SAREC). ISBN 91-630-4594-X.
- ^ a b c Kramp, P. L (1956). "Medusae of the Iranian Gulf" (PDF). Vidensk Meddel Dansk Naturhist for Kobenhavn. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ Collins, Allen G. (2014). "Tamoya gargantua". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help); Unknown parameter|summ=ignored (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Gershwin, Lisa-ann (2005). Taxonomy and phylogeny of Australian cubozoa. James Cook University.
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