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Macrorhynchia philippina Kirchenpauer, 1872 
AphiaID: 117305

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Plumularioidea (Superfamily) > Aglaopheniidae (Family) > Macrorhynchia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Macrorhynchia Kirchenpauer, 1872
Synonymised
taxa
  Lytocarpus philippinus (Kirchenpauer, 1872) (genus transfer)
Lytocarpus phillippinus (Kirschenpauer, 1872) (genus transfer and misspelling of author)
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]

basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Calder, D. R. and S. D. Cairns. 2009. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 381–394 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]

basis of record (from synonym): MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] [view taxon]

basis of record (from synonym): NODC (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes [details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): W. Vervoort, P. Schuchert & J. van der Land, 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English stinging hydroid  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic [details]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: colonial [details]

Description: Distinctive, black-stemmed, branching colony, up to about 17 cm. Habitat: shallow reefs. Distribution: pantropical and temperate (Richmond, 1997). [details]

Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117305
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2011-03-11 07:10:22Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Macrorhynchia philippina Kirchenpauer, 1872. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117305 on 2013-06-19
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