WoRMS taxon details
Nemopsis bachei L. Agassiz, 1849
AphiaID: 117348
AphiaID: 117348
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Bougainvilliidae (Family) > Nemopsis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||
| Parent | Nemopsis Agassiz, 1849 | |||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Bougainvillia charcoti Le Danois, 1913 (synonym) Hippocrene crucifera Forbes & Goodsir, 1853 (synonym) Nemopsis crucifera (Forbes & Goodsir, 1853) (synonym) Nemopsis gibbesi McCrady, 1859 (synonym (medusa)) Nemopsis heteronema Haeckel, 1879 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||
| 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] additional source: Bromley and Bleakney, 1977 [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: 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: 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: 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: Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre [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): 235 [details] from synonym: Edwards, C., 1966. The hydroid and the medusa Bougainvillia principis, and a review of the British species of Bougainvillia. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 46 1: 129-152. page(s): 142 [details] [view taxon] 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] | |||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | |||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] East North Atlantic [details] Elbe [details] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] German Bight [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] West North Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | |||||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Alien species: The hydroid Nemopsis bachei occurred naturally only along the Atlantic coast of North America. By attaching their polyps to hulls of ships; the species might have reached Europe in the 19th century. The jellyfish stage in the hydroids reproductive cycle allows it to spread rapidly. The species was first reported along the Belgian coast in 1996 in the port of Zeebrugge. [details] Biology: colonial [details] Dimensions: umbrella up to 11 mm high [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); Bay of Fundy [details] Habitat: upper epipelagic [details] Remark: Hydroids are quite easy to obtain from medusa but they are very small, maximum 0.6 mm high. It makes it almost impossible to find them in nature. On September 13th 2002 I found five reduced hydroids on translucent plastic floating in the marina in Zeebruge. Medusa are present in Zeebrugge from half May until the end of October, sometimes in large quantities. The medusa typically have a pair of club-shaped tentacles in the middle of each tentacle bulbus. It was observed how the club-shaped tentacles developed from normal tentacles. A medusa of 2.5 mm was sampled, it had 4 long tentacles on each bulbus. The next day, the 2 middlemost tentacles contracted to form the club-shaped tentacles. A medusa of 3-4 mm has 6 tentacles, the middlemost already club-shaped, but still able to extend them for a reasonable length. Statistics of measurements in relation to the number of tentacles and branching of the stomach tentacles are made on 120 individuals. [details] | |||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117348 | |||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Nemopsis bachei 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=117348 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||
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