Effects of Temperature, Salanity on Asexual Reproduction and Number Ephyra of Rhizostome Jellyfish Catostylus townsendi (Mayer, 1915)

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วิไลวรรณ พวงสันเทียะ
Siriwan Choosri
Jakkrapong Sripanomyom
Supaporn Sanitpoo

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The experiments were conducted to study effects of temperature (26, 28 and 30 ºc), salinity (20, 25 and 30 ppt.) on asexual reproduction, some strobili and some ephyra of Rhizostome Jellyfish Catostylus townsendi (Mayer, 1915) were chosen from the polyp stage to the ephyra stage. The study found that the reproduced asexually Podocyst. There was the effect of the temperature and salinity on asexual reproduction of the C. townsendi which showed the highest number of podocyst (mean±SE) occurred at 26 ºc and 25 ppt. (2.00±0.57 podocyst).  That is, the effect of temperature and salinity showed the highest number at 26 ºc (1.33±0.37 podocyst) and the highest number of salinity occurred at 25 ppt. (0.88±0.35 podocyst). The temperature of strobila were found at 30 ºc and 20,25 ppt. (4.33±0.33 strobila). The effect of temperature and salinity on the formation of strobila, the highest number occurred at 30 ºc (3.55±0.44 strobila) and the highest number of salinity showed at 20 ppt. (3.55±0.41 strobila) And ephyra, the highest number of ephyra occurred at 30 ºc and 20 ppt. (14.66±1.33 ephyra). The Effect of temperature and salinity on the number of ephyra, the highest number of ephyra were found at 30 ºc (10.66±1.57 ephyra) and the highest number of salinity occurred at 20 ppt. (10.77±1.50 ephyra)

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