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Mertensia ovum (Fabricius, 1780) 
AphiaID: 106377

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Ctenophora (Phylum) > Tentaculata (Class) > Typhlocoela (Subclass) > Cydippida (Order) > Mertensiidae (Family) > Mertensia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mertensia Lesson, 1830
Synonymised
taxa		  Mertensia cucullus L. Agassiz, 1860 (Synonym)
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: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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]

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 
Norwegian Bokmål arktiskammanet  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk arktiskammanet  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Ctenophora Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: predaceous on fish fry, copepods, and other small organisms of zooplankton [details]

Distribution: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy [details]

Habitat: pelagic [details]

Importance: ecological importance in reducing the number of fish fry, copepods, and other small organisms of the zooplankton (form swarms) [details]

Reproduction: hermaphroditic, fertilization is external [details]
Image 
Mertensia ovum
Mertensia ovum
added on 2012-10-09 - author: Kevin Raskoff, MPC (NOAA–OE) ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106377
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
2011-02-09 12:41:24Z  checked  Mills, Claudia
  
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  Citation: Mills, C. (2013). Mertensia ovum (Fabricius, 1780). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106377 on 2013-05-25
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