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Beroe cucumis Fabricius, 1780 
AphiaID: 106358

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Ctenophora (Phylum) > Nuda (Class) > Beroida (Order) > Beroidae (Family) > Beroe (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Beroe Gronov, 1760
Synonymised
taxa
  Beroe roseola Agassiz, 1860
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Ctenophora, 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. 122-123 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Mianzan, H.; Mills, C. (2009). Ctenophora. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Moss, A. G. 2009. Ctenophora of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 403–411 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: Liley, R. (1958). Ctenophora. Replaced by sheet no. 146. Fiches d'identification du zooplancton, 82. ICES: Copenhagen, Denmark. 5 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Mills, C.E. Internet 1998-present. Phylum Ctenophora: list of all valid species names., available online at http://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/Ctenolist.html [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish melongople  [details]
Dutch meloenkwal  [details]
English beroe  [details]
French béroé  [details]
German Melonenqualle  [details]
German Mützenqualle  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål agurkkammanet  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk agurkkammanet  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Antarctic Ocean [details]
Arctic Ocean [details]
Barents Sea [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Storfjordrenna [details]
Storfjords [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wadden Sea [details]
Zeeland [details]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (122 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Ctenophora Collection
To ITIS
Note  Biology: Phosphorescent [details]
Images 
Beroe cucumis
Beroe cucumis
added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Lindsay, Dhugal on 2012-08-24 07:55:34

Beroe cucumis
Beroe cucumis
added on 2012-10-09 - author: Kevin Raskoff, MPC (NOAA–OE) ()
qualitystatus: not checked

To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)  
To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106358
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-04 16:28:44Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
2010-05-28 10:13:23Z  checked  Collins, Allen G.
  
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  Citation: Collins, Allen G. (2013). Beroe cucumis Fabricius, 1780. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106358 on 2013-05-19
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