Insight into the cryptic diversity and phylogeography of the peculiar fried egg jellyfish Phacellophora (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Ulmaridae)

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Aquatic Biology

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Sampling and morphologic analyses

DNA analyses

Reports of Phacellophora observations

Results

Morphological analysis

DNA analyses

Discussion

Morphological analyses

Taxonomy issues with Phacellophora

Phacellophora reports worldwide

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Reports of Phacellophora worldwide.

(Note that some unavailable data could not be included, e.g., Zavolokin, Glebov & Kosenok, 2008; Il’inskii & Zavolokin, 2011)

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13125/supp-1

Haplotype frequencies of Phacellophora camtschatica s.l.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13125/supp-2

List of Haplotypes of P. camtschatica s.l. (colors match the COI clades).

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13125/supp-3

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Carlos J. Moura conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and tables, authored and reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Nikolai Ropa performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and tables, authored and reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Bruno Ivo Magalhães performed the experiments, prepared figures and tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

João M. Gonçalves conceived and designed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The six partial sequences of mitochondrial COI and 16S genes are available in the Supplemental Files and at GenBank: MZ945512MZ945514 and MZ947235MZ947237.

Funding

Financial support came from the FEDER (85%) and by regional funds (15%), through the “Programa Operacional Açores 2020”, within the project “Águas-VivAz”–ref.: ACORES-01-0145-FEDER-000119. Bruno Ivo Magalhães is supported by an FCT grant (ref. SFRH/BD/129917/2017). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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