WoRMS taxon details
Obelia geniculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 117388
AphiaID: 117388
| 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 geniculata (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Laomedea geniculata (Linnaeus, 1758) Sertularia geniculata 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] 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: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 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: 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: 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] basis of record (from synonym): Leloup, E. (1931). Un cas d'épibiose de l'hydropolype, Laomedea geniculata (Linné) [A case of epibiosis of the hydropolyp, Laomedea geniculata (Linneaus)]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 7(24): 1-3 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Bromley and Bleakney, 1977 [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] 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 | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] De Panne (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Doggersbank (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Japan [details] Manicouagan [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Brunswick (Canada) [details] New Zealand [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Nieuwpoort (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] Oosterschelde [details] Roscoff [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Villefranche-Sur-Mer (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Wadden Sea [details] Wenduine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] Zeebrugge [details] Zeeland [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Barcode of Life (54 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (218 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (114 nucleotides; 57 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: colonial [details] Distribution: Arctic to Florida and Texas [details] Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details] Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Taxonomy: Order: Leptothecatae according to Trott (2004). [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117388 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Obelia geniculata (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117388 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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