WoRMS taxon details
Obelia dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 117386
AphiaID: 117386
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Campanulariidae (Family) > Obelia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Obelia Péron & Lesueur, 1810 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Campanularia cheloniae Allman, 1888 (synonym) Campanularia dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Gonothyraea integra Fraser, 1940 (synonym) Laomedea dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Obelia alternata Fraser, 1938 (synonym) Obelia articulata (Agassiz, 1865) (synonym) Obelia australis von Lendenfeld, 1885 (synonym) Obelia biserialis Fraser, 1948 (synonym) Obelia cheloniae (Allman, 1888) (synonym) Obelia commissuralis McCrady, 1859 (synonym) Obelia equilateralis Fraser, 1938 (synonym) Obelia hyalina Clarke, 1879 (synonym) Obelia longicyatha Allman, 1877 (possible synonym) Obelia nodosa Bale, 1924 (synonym) Obelia obtusidens (Jäderholm, 1904) Obelia plicata Hincks, 1868 Sertularia dichotoma Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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] basis of record: NODC (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes [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: Vervoort, W. (2009). Leptothecata (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: 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] 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] source of synonymy (from synonym): North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Leloup, E. (1933). Contribution à la connaissance des hydropolypes de la côte des Pays-Bas [Contribution to the knowladge of the hydropolyps of the Dutch coast]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 9(45): 1-30 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Westendorp, G.D. (1843). Recherches sur les Polypiers flexibles de la Belgique, et particulièrement des environs d'Ostende. Annales de la Société Médico-Chirurgicale de Bruges IV: 5-48, 1 plate (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] basis of record (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] source of synonymy (from synonym): UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Fraser, C. McLean, 1940. Seven new species and one new genus of hydroids, mostly from the Atlantic Ocean. Proc. U.S. natn. Mus. 88 3090: 575-580, pls. 32-33. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Allman, G. J. 1888. Report on the Hydroida dredged by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. Part II.- The Tubularinae, Corymorphinae, Campanularinae, Sertularinae, and Thalamophora. The Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, Zoology 70: 1-90. , available online at http://19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-70/htm/%20Zool-70-doc.html page(s): 22 [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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Baltic sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Blankenberge [details] British Isles [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Otranto [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Africa (country) [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Villefranche-Sur-Mer (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (114 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: colonial [details] Distribution: northern Gaspe waters, Upstream part of Middle St. Lawrence estuary, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from the eastern Bradelle valley to West, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), lower St. Lawrence estuary, 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), upper North Shore (between Sept- Iles and Pointe des Monts), and middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details] Distribution: cosmopolitan [details] Habitat: intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Taxonomy: Order: Leptothecatae according to Trott (2004). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117386 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Obelia dichotoma. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117386 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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