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Cytaeis tetrastyla Eschscholtz, 1829 
AphiaID: 117506

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Cytaeididae (Family) > Cytaeis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cytaeis Eschscholtz, 1829
Synonymised
taxa		  Bougainvillia mediterranea Busch, 1851 (questionable synonym)
 Cytaeis herdmani Browne, 1905 (synonym)
 Cytaeis japonica Uchida, 1927 (synonym)
 Cytaeis macrogaster Haeckel, 1879 (synonym)
 Cytaeis nigritina 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]

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: Schuchert, P., 1996. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Athecate hydroids and their medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). New Zeal. Oceanog. Inst. Mem. 106 : 1-159. [details] [full text]

additional source: Schuchert, P. 2009a. Anthoanthecata (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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]

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): 275 [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: colonial [details]

Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details]

synonymy: 
Nigritina atlantica Steenstrup. – Kramp, 1961: 64, name not available.

Cytaeis tetrastyla Eschscholtz, 1829: 104, pl. 8 fig. 2.

? Bougainvillia mediterranea Busch, 1851: 21, pl. 2 figs, 10-11. – Haeckel, 1879: 73, synonym.

? Cytaeis pusilla Gegenbaur, 1856: 228, pl. 8 fig. 8. – Kramp, 1959a: 99, doubtful synonym.

Cytaeis macrogaster Haeckel, 1879. pl. 6 fig. 1. – Kramp, 1955a: 153, synonym.

Cytaeis nigritina Haeckel, 1879: 74, pl. 6 figs 2-5. – Maas, 1904: 8, pl. 1 figs 3-4. – Kramp, 1955a: 154, synonym.

? not Cytaeis vulgaris Agassiz & Mayer, 1899: 161, pl. 2 figs 3-5. – Mayer, 1910: 134. – Kramp, 1968: 27, perhaps valid.

Cytaeis herdmani Browne, 1905a: 135, pl. 1 fig. 1, pl. 4 fig. 12. – Browne, 1916: 177, synonym.

Cytaeis atlantica. – Mayer, 1910: 133, figs 71-72 [invalid combination].

? not Cytaeis pusilla. – Neppi & Stiasny, 1913: 23.

Cytaeis japonica Uchida, 1927: 215, fig. 39. – Kramp, 1959a: 99, synonym.
 [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117506
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Cytaeis tetrastyla Eschscholtz, 1829. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117506 on 2013-06-19
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