The scientific research team of the Hong Kong Baptist University announced that a new box -shaped jellyfish species was found in the Mipu Nature Reserve in Hong Kong.
According to a press release issued by the official website of the Baptist University on Tuesday (April 18), it was found that the team of the new species was led by Qiu Jianwen, a professor of the Department of Biotechnology, and members include the World Natural Foundation Hong Kong Branch, the Hong Kong OceanPersons at the University of Park and Manchester, England.
In the summer of 2020 to 2022, the team collected box -shaped jellyfish samples in a salty freshwater base shrimp pond in the Mipu Nature Reserve in Hong Kong, and found that they belong to a new species.According to the press release, the paper described in the new species has been published in the Zoological Studies.
The team named the new species as "Tripedalia Maipoensis" to reflect its source.Qiu Jianwen said that although this species is currently discovered in Mipu, because the Kanai shrimp pond connects to the estuary through the tidal channel, I believe they are also distributed in the waters near the Pearl River Estuary.
According to the press release, the latest discovered Mipu Sankea jellyfish belongs to the San Pado -AMerian, is the fourth species of the San Patsses AMS in the world, and the third species described by the three paddles.
The research team found that through morphology and molecular biology analysis, it was found that it was compared to the similar species of cystic tri -paddles (Tripedalia Cystophora Cystophora, the United States, Florida, Singapore, Australia, and India.), New species have obvious form and genetic differences.
Qiu Jianwen said that the box -shaped jellyfish is a group group. There are currently only 49 recorded species in the world, which are little known in the Chinese waters.He pointed out that Mipu is a region that has been studied in -depth in Hong Kong, but the team is still discovered where new species are found there, reflecting the high diversity of marine creatures in Hong Kong and even China.
