Post-flooding blooms of the non-indigenous freshwater jellyfish <i>Craspedacusta sowerbii</i> Lankester, 1880 in Kollam District of Kerala, India
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Cnidarian jellyfish are common components of marine food webs, though a small number of species also thrive in freshwaters. Freshwater jellyfish (class Hydrozoa) are not uncommon in tropical and subtropical India. Several genera, each with few (&lt;10) species, are represented. The non-indigenous Peach Blossom Jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii has, however, only been sighted thrice in India in the past; twice (2009 and 2016) in Kerala State, southwest India. We report on a mass occurrence of C. sowerbii in a small freshwater water body (Chirakkal pond, Karurkadavu village, Karunagapalli, Kollam District) following a major flood event in August 2018. We provide notes on environmental conditions present and the jellyfish bloom characteristics. This report establishes the presence of the invasive species in the water bodies of Kerala and its post-flooding, adding it to the 32 already reported aquatic alien species in the state. While the fate of the herein-reported C. sowerbii population explosion in Kerala State is not entirely known, we call for more regional awareness and research attention, including community involvement.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".