WoRMS taxon details
Serratosagitta tasmanica (Thompson, 1947)
AphiaID: 105465
AphiaID: 105465
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chaetognatha (Phylum) > Sagittoidea (Class) > Aphragmophora (Order) > Sagittidae (Family) > Serratosagitta (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Serratosagitta Tokioka, 1965 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Sagitta serratodentata tasmanica Sagitta tasmanica Thompson, 1947 (Synonym) Serratosagitta selkirki (Faggetti, 1958) (Synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van der Land, J.; Kapp, H. (2001). Chaetognatha, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 335 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [details] additional source: Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 p. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Bradford-Grieve, J. (2009). Chaetognatha. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Fraser, J.H. (1957). Chaetognatha. Fiches d'identification du zooplancton, 1(Rev. 1). ICES: Copenhagen, Denmark. 6 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bay of Fundy [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: microscopic diatoms, protozoans and small larvae of other animals, as well as copepod crustaceans and even larval fish [details] Dimensions: in general, chaetognatha ranged from 9-19 mm [details] Distribution: in all oceans [details] Distribution: whole coast south to Virginia, along shore [details] Habitat: upper mesopelagic of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: epipelagic [details] Importance: studied by oceanographers due to their vast horizontal and vertical migrations and they are found throughout all oceans [details] Predators: herring [details] Reproduction: hermaphroditic (male organs in the tail and ovaries in trunk); eggs fertilized internally and shed [details] Taxonomy: are cannibalistic , attacking each other [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105465 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Thuesen, Erik V. (2013). Serratosagitta tasmanica (Thompson, 1947). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105465 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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