WoRMS taxon details
Bowerbankia gracilis Leidy, 1855
AphiaID: 111665
AphiaID: 111665
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Bryozoa (Phylum) > Gymnolaemata (Class) > Ctenostomatida (Order) > Stolonifera (Suborder) > Vesiculariidae (Family) > Bowerbankia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Bowerbankia Farre, 1837 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Leidy, J.. 1855. Contributions towards a knowledge of the marine Invertebrate fauna of the coasts of Rhode Island and New Jersey. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, New Series 3(2) no. 11: 135-152, pls. 10-11. (xii-1855) [details] basis of record: Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, 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. 325-333 (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: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 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: 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: De Blauwe, H. (2009). Mosdiertjes van de Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee. Determinatiewerk voor België en Nederland. Uitgave Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, Oostende: 464pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Loppens, K. (1906). Bryozoaires marins et fluviatiles de la Belgique. Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique et Malacologique de Belgique 41: 286-321. [details] additional source: Lacourt, A.W. (1949). Bryozoa of the Netherlands. Archives Néerlandaises de Zoologie 8(3): 1-33. [details] additional source: Gordon, D. (2009). Bryozoa, Hemichordata. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Winston, J. E. and F. J. Maturo Jr. 2009. Bryozoans (Ectoprocta) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1147–1164 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: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Bowerbankia gracilis bengalensis Annandale ms Subspecies Bowerbankia gracilis delicata Osburn in d'Hondt, 1983 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Bar Road [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgium [details] British Isles [details] Calais [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Minas Basin [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oosterschelde [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Ria de Aveiro [details] Saint Andrews [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] USA [details] Wimereux [details] Zeeland [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Bryozoa Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Small microorganisms, including diatoms and other unicellular algae. [details] Distribution: southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley); middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands); Florida [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Predators: grazing organisms such as sea urchins and fish; also subject to competition and overgrowth from sponges, algae, and tunicates [details] Reproduction: sexual and asexual; bryozoan colonies consist of replicated series of zooids, each budded asexually from a predecessor. The founding zooid metamorphoses from the sexually produced larva. Hermaphroditic. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:111665 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Gordon, D.; Hayward, P. (2013). Bowerbankia gracilis Leidy, 1855. In: Bock, P.; Gordon, D. (2013) World List of Bryozoa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=111665 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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