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Laomedea flexuosa Alder, 1857 
AphiaID: 117382

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Campanulariidae (Family) > Laomedea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Laomedea Lamouroux, 1812
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
German Glockenpolyp  [details]
Polish obelia  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
East North Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Iceland [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Nieuwpoort [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Roscoff [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West North Pacific [details]
White Sea [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeebrugge [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (55 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 36 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Authority: (Hincks, 1868) [details]

Biology: colonial [details]

Date of publication: Alder, 1850 [details]

Distribution: Boreal and littoral species. [details]

Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), northern Gaspe Waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of Middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including Mingan Islands) [details]

Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]

Habitat: intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Taxonomy: Order: Leptothecatae according to Trott (2004). [details]
Images 
Laomedea flexuosa
Laomedea flexuosa
added on 2006-12-21 - author: Schuchert, Peter
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Laomedia flexuosa
Laomedia flexuosa
added on 2007-01-23 - author: Worsfold, Tim
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117382
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Laomedea flexuosa Alder, 1857. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117382 on 2013-06-20
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