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Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 
AphiaID: 117270

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Aequoreidae (Family) > Aequorea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Synonymised
taxa
  Aequorea aequorea (Forsskål, 1775) (invalid name)
Medusa aequorea Forsskål, 1775 (invalid junior homonym of Medusa aequorea Linnaeus, 1758)
Sources  original description: Péron, F. & C.A. Lesueur, 1810. Histoire générale et particulière de tous les animaux qui composent la famille des méduses. Annls Mus. Hist. nat. Paris 14 : 217-228. [details]

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]

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: Vervoort, W. (2009). Leptothecata (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Cornelius, P.F.S. (1995). North-West European thecate hydroids and their Medusae: part 1 introduction, Laodiceidae to Haleciidae: keys and notes for identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 50. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-254-4. vii, 347 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon]

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

from synonym: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Navas-Pereira, D. & M. Vannucci (1991). The Hydromedusae and water masses of the Indian Ocean. Bolm Inst. Oceanogr., S. Paulo. 39(1): 25-60. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Boero, Ferdinando (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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English many-ribbed jellyfish  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 67 (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Authority: Péron & Lesueur, 1810 [details]

Biology: colonial, free medusae [details]

Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details]

Distribution: Maine to Texas [details]

Remark: Only three medusa were sampled in 1999-2003 in the outher harbour of Zeebrugge:
2001-09-28: 1 ex (60 mm)
2002-07-16: 1 ex (12 mm)
2002-07-24: 1 ex (43 mm)
 [details]

Spelling: In Müller (2004) the Genus is mentioned as Aequora [details]
Image 
Aequorea forskalea
Aequorea forskalea
added on 2010-01-18 - author: De Blauwe, Hans
qualitystatus: checked by De Blauwe, Hans on 2010-01-21 09:55:01
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117270
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-03-16 08:18:17Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
2012-07-10 11:58:27Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Aequorea forskalea. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117270 on 2013-05-25
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