WoRMS taxon details
Turritopsis nutricula McCrady, 1857
AphiaID: 117440
AphiaID: 117440
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Oceaniidae (Family) > Turritopsis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||
| Parent | Turritopsis McCrady, 1857 | |||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Corydendrium nutricula (McCrady, 1857) (Synonym) Modeeria multitentaculata Fewkes, 1881 (synonym) | |||||||||
| Sources |
original description: McCrady, J., 1857. Description of Oceania (Turritopsis) nutricula nov. spec. and the embryological history of a singular medusan larva, found in the cavity of its bell. Proc. Elliott Soc. nat. Hist. 1 : 55-90. page(s): 55 [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: Navas-Pereira, D. & M. Vannucci (1991). The Hydromedusae and water masses of the Indian Ocean. Bolm Inst. Oceanogr., S. Paulo. 39(1): 25-60. [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: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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] additional source: Schuchert, P., 2004. Revision of the European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): families Oceanidae and Pachycordylidae. Rev. Suisse Zool. 111 2: 315-369. [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: 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] | |||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (probably not valid) [details] European waters (ERMS scope) (probably not valid) [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (probably not valid) [details] Wimereux (probably not valid) [details] | |||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (71 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: colonial [details] Distribution: Turritopsis nutricula is likely not present along the European coasts; all well documented cases belong either to T. polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862) or to T. dohrnii (see Schuchert, 2004. The distribution of T. plycirrha is North-East Atlantic. T. nutricula is confined to the Western Atlantic [details] Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details] | |||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117440 | |||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Turritopsis nutricula McCrady, 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=117440 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||
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