A team of scientists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has discovered a new species
The research group was headed by ProfessorQiu Jianwen, Professor, Department of Biology, HKBU. Over the summer of 2020 to 2022, with collaborators from WWF-Hong Kong, Ocean Park Hong Kong and the University of Manchester, the team collected jellyfish samples from a brackish shrimp pond at Mai Po Nature Reserve. They discovered that the samples belonged to a new species.
“We named the new species Tripedalia maipoensis,to mention the place where a new species was first discovered. Although it is currently only known in May Po, we believe that this species is also common in the adjacent waters of the Pearl River Estuary,” explains Professor Qiu.
Morphological characteristics and phylogenetic position. Photo: “Zoological Research” (2023), DOI:10.6620/ZS.2023.62-17
Newly discovered Tripedalia maipoensisbelongs to the family Tripedaliidae. It is the fourth described species of Tripedaliidae and the third described species of the genus Tripedalia worldwide. It has a transparent and colorless body with an average length of 1.5 cm. At each of its four corners there are three tentacles up to 10 cm long.
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