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Mertensia ovum Arctic comb jelly, Sea Nut, Arctic Sea Gooseberry

Mertensia ovumis commonly referred to as Arctic comb jelly, Sea Nut, Arctic Sea Gooseberry. Difficulty in the aquarium: Only for advanced aquarists. A aquarium size of at least 10000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Alexander Semenov, Russland

Mertensia ovum, 2017


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lexID:
6757 
AphiaID:
106377 
Scientific:
Mertensia ovum 
German:
Seenuss 
English:
Arctic Comb Jelly, Sea Nut, Arctic Sea Gooseberry 
Category:
Ctenophora 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Ctenophora (Phylum) > Tentaculata (Class) > Cydippida (Order) > Mertensiidae (Family) > Mertensia (Genus) > ovum (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Fabricius, ), 1780 
Occurrence:
Russland, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the North Sea, Alaska (Western Atlantic), Arctic (North Polar Sea), Canada , Greenland, Gulf of California, Kara Sea , North Atlantic Ocean, Spitsbergen /Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, USA 
Sea depth:
1 - 50 Meter 
Size:
0.39" - 3.94" (1cm - 10cm) 
Temperature:
50 °F - 68 °F (10°C - 20°C) 
Food:
Amphipods, Copepods, Fish eggs, Invertebrates, Zooplankton 
Tank:
2199.78 gal (~ 10000L)  
Difficulty:
Only for advanced aquarists 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Mertensia alpina
  • Mertensia arizonica
  • Mertensia bella
  • Mertensia brevistyla
  • Mertensia campanulata
  • Mertensia ciliata
  • Mertensia davurica
  • Mertensia drummondii
  • Mertensia dshagastanica
  • Mertensia franciscana
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2020-04-06 14:45:20 

Info

(Fabricius, 1780)

Synonym:
Beroe ovum Fabricius, 1780
Cydippe ovum Fabr. Mörch.
Mertensia cucullus L. Agassiz, 1860

Scientific paper

  1. Feeding of the Arctic ctenophore Mertensia ovum in the Baltic Sea: evidence of the use of microbial prey, Majaneva, S.; Setala, O.; Gorokhova, E.; Lehtiniemi, M. , 2014
  2. Cydippid ctenophores in the coastal waters of Svalbard: is it onlyMertensia ovum?, Majaneva, S.; Majaneva, M. , 2013
  3. The fate of dietary lipids in the Arctic ctenophoreMertensia ovum(Fabricius 1780), Martin Graeve; Marte Lundberg; Marco Böer; Gerhard Kattner; Haakon Hop; Stig Falk-Petersen, 2008
  4. Population structure and accumulation of lipids in the ctenophoreMertensia ovum, Marte Lundberg; Haakon Hop; Ketil Eiane; Bjørn Gulliksen; Stig Falk-Petersen, 2006

External links

  1. Alexander Semenov Website (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. SeaLifeBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  4. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  5. Zooplankton Guide (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Mertensia ovum, 2017
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„LightRefractsOf comb-rows of ctenophore Mertensia ovum“ von Kevin Raskoff - Mertensia on oceanexplorer.noaa.gov. Lizenziert unter Gemeinfrei über Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wik
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Mertensia ovum (c) by Alexander Semenov
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Mertensia ovum (c) by Alexander Semenov
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