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Dicoryne conferta (Alder, 1856) 
AphiaID: 117336

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Bougainvilliidae (Family) > Dicoryne (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Dicoryne Allman, 1859
Synonymised
taxa		  Dicoryne flexuosa Sars, 1873 (Synonym)
 Dicoryne stricta Allman, 1859 (synonym)
 Eudendrium confertum Alder, 1856 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Alder, J., 1856. A notice of some new genera and species of British hydroid zoophytes. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. -218 107: 353-362., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19544#page/390/mode/1up
page(s): 354 [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: Leloup, E. (1952). Coelentérés [Coelenterata]. ---. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Brussels, Belgium. 283 pp. (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: 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): 241 [details]

from synonym: Calder, D. 2003 MS. Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Schuchert, P. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Van Beneden, P. J. 1867a. Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique (polypes). Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Belgique 36: 1-207, plates I-XIX. (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 
German Dicoryne-Polyp  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
East North Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North East Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic [details]
South Africa [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Villefranche-Sur-Mer [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: colonial [details]

Distribution: Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) [details]

Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Type locality: Cullercoats, England, North Sea [details]
Images 
Van Beneden (1867, pl. 08)
Van Beneden (1867, pl. 08)
added on 2008-05-06 - author: P.J. Van Beneden
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked

Leloup (1952, fig. 60)
Leloup (1952, fig. 60)
added on 2009-09-11 - author: E. Leloup
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2012-03-09 13:01:32
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117336
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Dicoryne conferta (Alder, 1856). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117336 on 2013-05-26
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