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Nemopsis Agassiz, 1849 
AphiaID: 117022

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Bougainvilliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Parent Bougainvilliidae Lütken, 1850
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, 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. 112-120 (look up in IMIS[details]

redescription: Schuchert, P. 2007. The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. Revue suisse de Zoologie 114: 195-396
page(s): 234 [details]


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 Species Nemopsis bachei L. Agassiz, 1849
Species Nemopsis dofleini Maas, 1909
Species Nemopsis hexacanalis Huang & Xu, 1994

Species Nemopsis crucifera (Forbes & Goodsir, 1853) accepted as Nemopsis bachei L. Agassiz, 1849
Species Nemopsis gibbesi McCrady, 1859 accepted as Nemopsis bachei L. Agassiz, 1849
Species Nemopsis heteronema Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Nemopsis bachei L. Agassiz, 1849
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
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Note  Diagnosis: Hydroids, solitary, small, club-shaped, with pedal disk, hydrocaulus not distinctly delimited from hydranth body, large medusa buds in basal region.
Medusa with four clusters of marginal tentacles, in each cluster a median pair of clubshaped or capitate tentacles flanked by a number of simple, filiform tentacles; with adaxial ocelli; with four perradial dichotomously branched tentacles; manubrium with four radial lobes extending outwards along the radial canals; gonads on these lobes. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117022
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2009-04-28 12:00:23Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Nemopsis Agassiz, 1849. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117022 on 2013-05-22
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