Check List 18(2): 357-362, doi: 10.15560/18.2.357
First records of the jellyfishes Thysanostoma loriferum (Ehrenberg, 1837) and Netrostoma setouchianum (Kishinouye, 1902) in Hong Kong waters
John Terenzini ‡, Laura J. Falkenberg§‡ Independent researcher, Hong Kong Jellyfish Project, Hong Kong, Hong Kong§ The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Corresponding author: Laura J. Falkenberg ( laurafalkenberg@cuhk.edu.hk ) Academic editor: Sergio N. Stampar © John Terenzini , Laura J. Falkenberg. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Terenzini J, Falkenberg LJ (2022) First records of the jellyfishes Thysanostoma loriferum (Ehrenberg, 1837) and Netrostoma setouchianum (Kishinouye, 1902) in Hong Kong waters. Check List 18(2): 357-362. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.2.357 |  |
Abstract
Jellyfish have wide distributions throughout the world’s oceans, with new species records emerging from increasingly broad areas as novel identification approaches are implemented, including citizen science. Here, the first accounts of Thysanostoma loriferum (Ehrenberg, 1837) and Netrostoma setouchianum (Kishinouye, 1902) in Hong Kong waters are reported based on photographs and videos collected by the Hong Kong Jellyfish Project. Together, these sightings obtained through a citizen science project provide evidence for a greater diversity of jellyfish in Hong Kong oceanic waters than has previously been recognized.
Keywords
Citizen science, first record, Hong Kong Jellyfish Project, marine biodiversity, South China Sea, species distribution, species identification