WoRMS taxon details
Bougainvillia principis (Steenstrup, 1850)
AphiaID: 117329
AphiaID: 117329
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Bougainvilliidae (Family) > Bougainvillia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Bougainvillia allmanii Romanes, 1877 (synonym) Hippocrene aurea Linko, 1904 (synonym) Hippocrene simplex Forbes & Goodsir, 1851 (questionable synonym) Margelis principis Steenstrup, 1850 (basionym) Medusa duodecilia Dalyell, 1847 (questionable synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Steenstrup, J., 1850. Sur Margelis principis. [In Lütken: Nogle Bemaerkninger...]. Vidensk. Medd. dansk. naturh. Foren. Kbh. : 15- 35. page(s): 35 [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: Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. Thalassia Salent. 24: 47-296 (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): 210 [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] North East Atlantic [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: colonial polyp releasing medusae [details] Distribution: Atlantic coast of Labrador [details] Distribution: A northern boreal medusa occurring in coastal areas from the Barents Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Also present around Iceland, western Greenland and New England. The records for NE Pacific were referred to the very similar B. multitentaculata Foerster, 1923 by Arai & Brinckmann-Voss (1980), but later changed to B. principis (Cairns et al., 2002). [details] Type locality: Sandvaag, The Faroe Islands. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117329 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Bougainvillia principis (Steenstrup, 1850). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117329 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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