简介:Fifty-sevenstations(48gridstationsandninestratifiedstations)weresampledacrossthestudyregion(67.000°–88.394°N,152.500°–178.643°W)duringthe4thChineseNationalArcticResearchExpedition(CHINARE4)fromJulytoAugust2010bytheicebreakerR/VXuelong.Atotalof24speciesofHydromedusaewereidentifiedfrom130zooplanktonsamples,ofwhichsevenspeciesbelongedtoAutomedusa,eightspeciestoAnthomedusae,fourspeciestoLeptomedudae,andthreespeciestoSiphonophora.CatablemamulticirratumKishinouye,1910,BougainvilliabitentaculataUchida,1925,andEuphysajaponica(Maas,1909)wererecordedforthefirsttimeintheArcticsea.Inthepresentpaper,18speciesofHydromedusaeweredescribedandillustrated,ofwhichthreespeciesweredescribedforthefirsttimeintheArcticsea,and15speciesweredescribedforthefirsttimeinChina.