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"Enable an AI agent to recognise a jellyfish, assess its life stage and condition, and choose evidence-supported observation, care or handling actions.", "definition": "", "scope_statement": "This model owns an individual organism registered as a jellyfish, including its identification, medusoid body, life-stage context, condition, environmental dependencies and interaction constraints; uncertain common-name boundaries remain explicit.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of an observed jellyfish, with evidence and confidence", "Bell, tentacle, oral-arm and other visible anatomical features", "Life stage and links to the organism's species-specific life cycle", "Vitality, injury, feeding condition and observable behaviour", "Immediate water conditions, ecological interactions and handling constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Comb jellies, salps and other non-cnidarian gelatinous animals", "Siphonophore colonies such as Portuguese man-of-war", "Whole jellyfish populations, blooms and their regional forecasts", "Water bodies, currents and ecosystem condition as independent subjects", "Aquarium infrastructure and life-support equipment", "Human sting diagnosis and treatment" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check for a medusoid body with a bell or umbrella and a mouth-bearing oral surface; transparency or gelatinous texture alone does not establish jellyfish identity.", "Check for eight longitudinal rows of beating comb plates: their presence supports comb-jelly identification rather than jellyfish identification.", "Check whether the apparent animal is an integrated medusa or a colony of specialised zooids; a floating gas bladder with dependent zooids supports a siphonophore interpretation.", "Check for a barrel-shaped body with opposed siphonal openings and encircling muscle bands, which supports a salp interpretation.", "Where suitable examination is available, use cnidocytes as evidence of cnidarian identity, while recognising that this does not by itself distinguish a jellyfish from other cnidarians." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification and confidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Candidate taxon or unidentified cnidarian medusa; confidence and supporting observations", "why_it_matters": "Species and group identity constrain interpretations of anatomy, life cycle, environmental needs and sting hazard." }, { "name": "Bell dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Millimetres; diameter and height with posture and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification, growth assessment and accommodation decisions without confusing contraction with size change." }, { "name": "Tentacle and oral-arm configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed number or estimate, arrangement, branching and relative length; absent, damaged or unobservable where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish taxa and separates normal anatomy from damage or poor visibility." }, { "name": "Life stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Immature medusa, adult medusa or unresolved; ephyra where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents juvenile anatomy and behaviour from being judged against adult expectations." }, { "name": "Bell pulsation rate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Contractions per minute with observation duration, temperature and disturbance context", "why_it_matters": "Provides a repeatable activity observation without treating inactivity alone as proof of death." }, { "name": "Tissue and appendage condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intact, torn, eroded, missing appendages, disintegrating or unresolved; affected location and extent", "why_it_matters": "Supports injury assessment and decisions about intervention." }, { "name": "Immediate water conditions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C, salinity with stated scale, dissolved oxygen in mg/L and flow speed in cm/s when measured", "why_it_matters": "Allows observed condition to be interpreted against evidence for the identified taxon and life stage." }, { "name": "Feeding and symbiotic associations", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed prey capture or ingestion; identified or suspected photosymbionts with evidence", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes nutritional dependencies that cannot safely be assumed for every jellyfish." }, { "name": "Contact hazard assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unknown or assessed using taxon-specific evidence; include intact animal, stranded animal or detached tissue context", "why_it_matters": "Guides contact restrictions without assuming small size, immobility or stranding makes contact safe." } ], "affordances": [ "Observe and photograph bell shape, appendages and movement while maintaining an appropriate contact distance.", "Identify the animal to the narrowest supported taxon and preserve alternative identifications.", "Monitor pulsation, tissue integrity, feeding and surrounding water conditions over time.", "Assess whether collection, transfer or examination is justified, permitted and supported by an appropriate handling method.", "Adjust captive feeding, lighting or water conditions when taxon-specific evidence supports the change.", "Flag uncertain or potentially hazardous contact situations for specialist assessment." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Record sightings and blooms for monitoring programmes.", "Warn swimmers about stinging jellyfish from official beach reports." ], "must_not": [ "Handle or touch jellyfish without protection, including stranded ones.", "Recommend first aid for stings that contradicts local health advice.", "Collect or keep live jellyfish without proper care and permission.", "Present a sighting as harmless when the species is unknown." ], "requires_human": [ "Closing a beach or lifting a closure because of jellyfish." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Blooms reflect ocean health and harm fisheries and tourism livelihoods.", "Some species can kill; public warnings must be honest." ], "affected_parties": [ "Swimmers and beachgoers", "Fishers", "The animals themselves" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody: wild marine life; fisheries and beach authorities manage the risks.", "master_systems": [ "Marine biodiversity databases" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "A soft, translucent, bell-shaped body.", "Trailing tentacles or oral arms beneath the bell.", "Pulsing swimming motion in water or a flattened blob when stranded." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Painful or dangerous stings from tentacles, even from dead animals.", "Blooms clogging fishing nets and cooling-water intakes.", "Severe allergic or systemic reactions to some species." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Jellyfish occur in aquatic ecosystems, especially marine waters, where they participate in food webs as predators and prey.", "They are encountered in coastal observation, fisheries, ecological surveys and aquarium collections, where species and life stage influence interpretation and care." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, issued by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, governs the scientific naming of jellyfish taxa." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q30178: jellyfish", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30178", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Jellyfish", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "jellyfish-identity", "name": "Jellyfish identity", "description": "Establish whether the observed organism belongs under this registry entry and how precisely it can be identified.", "rationale": "The common name jellyfish can conceal materially different organisms and uncertain taxonomic boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "medusa-recognition", "name": "Medusa recognition", "description": "Evaluate observable anatomy against jellyfish and gelatinous lookalike interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "medusoid-body-evidence", "name": "Medusoid body evidence", "description": "Record bell and oral-surface evidence, together with features supporting or excluding lookalikes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed structures support an integrated cnidarian medusa rather than a comb jelly, salp or siphonophore colony?", "kind": "definition", "id": "medusoid-body-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which diagnostic structures were obscured, damaged or too small to inspect?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "medusoid-body-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-resolution", "name": "Taxonomic resolution", "description": "Separate a supported identification from an appearance-based guess.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-taxon", "name": "Supported taxon", "description": "Retain identification evidence, candidate alternatives and the limits of available observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identification key, expert determination or other evidence supports the assigned taxon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-taxon-q01" }, { "text": "What additional view or examination would distinguish the remaining candidate taxa?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-taxon-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bell-and-appendages", "name": "Bell and appendages", "description": "Describe the animal's medusoid form and distinguish normal variation from loss or injury.", "rationale": "Bell shape and delicate appendages are central to jellyfish recognition, movement, prey capture and condition assessment.", "layers": [ { "id": "bell-form", "name": "Bell form", "description": "Capture bell geometry with the observation conditions needed to compare measurements.", "findings": [ { "id": "bell-size-and-shape", "name": "Bell size and shape", "description": "Record dimensions, profile and visible symmetry without conflating contraction with growth or deformation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the bell diameter and height, and was the bell relaxed or contracted when measured?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bell-size-and-shape-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observed shape match the proposed taxon and stage, or require another explanation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bell-size-and-shape-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "feeding-appendages", "name": "Feeding appendages", "description": "Distinguish tentacles and oral arms and assess their observable completeness.", "findings": [ { "id": "appendage-pattern-and-integrity", "name": "Appendage pattern and integrity", "description": "Record appendage arrangement and damage while preserving uncertainty caused by retraction or poor visibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many tentacles and oral arms are visible, where are they attached, and what lengths or branching patterns can be established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "appendage-pattern-and-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "Are apparently absent appendages normally absent for this taxon, retracted, obscured or demonstrably damaged?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "appendage-pattern-and-integrity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-stage-and-vitality", "name": "Life stage and vitality", "description": "Interpret development, movement and tissue condition in the context of the identified jellyfish.", "rationale": "Juvenile form, reproductive state, inactivity and deterioration require different interpretations and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "developmental-context", "name": "Developmental context", "description": "Place the observed medusa within a supported life history.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-and-life-history", "name": "Stage and life history", "description": "Record stage evidence and links to other stages without assuming every jellyfish follows the same developmental sequence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which anatomical observations support the assigned developmental or reproductive stage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stage-and-life-history-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes whether this taxon has a polyp stage, an ephyra stage or another developmental route?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-and-life-history-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "vitality-assessment", "name": "Vitality assessment", "description": "Combine activity and tissue observations before judging the animal's condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "activity-and-deterioration", "name": "Activity and deterioration", "description": "Record pulsation, orientation, responsiveness and tissue integrity with their environmental context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What pulsation rate, orientation changes and tissue abnormalities were observed over what interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "activity-and-deterioration-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes ordinary inactivity or current-driven movement from severe impairment or death?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "activity-and-deterioration-q02" }, { "text": "Which observed changes justify closer monitoring or specialist assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "activity-and-deterioration-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "water-and-nutrition", "name": "Water and nutrition", "description": "Connect the individual jellyfish to its immediate physical and nutritional environment.", "rationale": "Water conditions, flow, prey and sometimes photosymbionts directly affect jellyfish function and care decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "water-exposure", "name": "Water exposure", "description": "Record the conditions actually experienced by the animal.", "findings": [ { "id": "water-compatibility", "name": "Water compatibility", "description": "Compare measured conditions with supported requirements for the taxon and stage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and flow conditions were measured near the animal?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "water-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which taxon- and stage-specific evidence supports judging those conditions as suitable or stressful?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "water-compatibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "nutritional-pathways", "name": "Nutritional pathways", "description": "Establish how this jellyfish obtains nutrition and whether feeding appears effective.", "findings": [ { "id": "prey-and-photosymbionts", "name": "Prey and photosymbionts", "description": "Distinguish observed ingestion, assumed prey availability and any supported photosymbiotic dependence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What prey capture and ingestion were observed, and over what observation period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "prey-and-photosymbionts-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes photosymbiont presence or light dependence in this individual or identified taxon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "prey-and-photosymbionts-q02" }, { "text": "What feeding or lighting adjustment is supported by the identification and observed nutritional condition?", "kind": "action", "id": "prey-and-photosymbionts-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-and-intervention", "name": "Contact and intervention", "description": "Determine how observation, contact, capture or transfer may proceed for this jellyfish.", "rationale": "Stinging structures and fragile tissues create distinct risks to people and to the animal.", "layers": [ { "id": "stinging-contact", "name": "Stinging contact", "description": "Assess contact hazards without inferring safety from appearance or apparent death.", "findings": [ { "id": "contact-hazard-evidence", "name": "Contact hazard evidence", "description": "Record the basis and uncertainty of a hazard assessment for the animal and any detached tissue.", "questions": [ { "text": "What reliable evidence describes the contact hazard of the supported candidate taxa?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contact-hazard-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What contact restrictions are justified while identification or tissue activity remains uncertain?", "kind": "action", "id": "contact-hazard-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capture-and-care-decisions", "name": "Capture and care decisions", "description": "Evaluate whether an intervention has a justified purpose and a suitable method.", "findings": [ { "id": "intervention-suitability", "name": "Intervention suitability", "description": "Connect the intended action to permissions, tissue fragility, environmental continuity and receiving conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What purpose and applicable permission support collecting, moving or examining this individual?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "What transfer method and receiving water conditions are supported for its taxon, size and condition?", "kind": "action", "id": "intervention-suitability-q02" }, { "text": "Which signs of bell damage, appendage entanglement or declining activity require the intervention to stop or change?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intervention-suitability-q03" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does this registry entry include stalked jellyfish and all hydrozoan medusae, or use a narrower meaning that must be documented?", "Should non-medusa stages be represented within this model or linked to separately registered polyp and life-cycle models?", "Which identification references provide reliable distinctions among juvenile, damaged and locally similar jellyfish taxa?", "Which taxon- and stage-specific baselines support vitality, environmental suitability and nutritional assessments?", "Which authoritative regional sources establish contact hazards, collection restrictions and appropriate capture or transfer methods?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 23 } }