WoRMS taxon details
Bougainvillia superciliaris (L. Agassiz, 1849)
AphiaID: 117333
AphiaID: 117333
| 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 paradoxa Mereschowsky, 1879 (synonym) Hippocrene superciliaris L. Agassiz, 1849 (basionym) | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Agassiz, L. (1849). Contributions to the natural history of the Acalephae of North America. Part I. On the naked-eyed medusae of the shores of Massachusets in their perfect states of development. Mem. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., n. ser. 4 9: 221-316. pls 1-8. page(s): 273 [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: 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: Calder, D. 2003 MS. Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy. [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 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: 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: Schuchert, P. 2009a. Anthoanthecata (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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): 220 [details] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Cobscook Bay [details] East North Atlantic [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saint Andrews [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||
| Notes |
Biology: colonial [details] Dimensions: umbrella height and width 7-9 mm [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy; Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrador (Western slope of Newfoundland, including southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50 m in the area southwest of Newfoundland); Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: upper epipelagic [details] Type locality: Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117333 | |||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Bougainvillia superciliaris (L. 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=117333 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||
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