WoRMS taxon details
Staurophora mertensii Brandt, 1838
AphiaID: 117730
AphiaID: 117730
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Laodiceidae (Family) > Staurophora (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Staurostoma mertensii (Brandt, 1834) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Staurophora Brandt, 1838 accepted as Staurostoma Haeckel, 1879 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cuspidella mertensi (Brandt, 1838) (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Brandt, J.F., 1838. Ausführliche Beschreibung der von C.H. Mertens auf seiner Weltumsegelung beobachteten Schwimmquallen. Mém. Acad. imp. Sci. St-Pétersbourg -64 2: 237-412. [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: Calder, D. 2003 MS. Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy. [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [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: 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: 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: Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190. [details] additional source: Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C.; Pagès, F.; Gili, J.-M.; Boero, F. (2006). An introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 194. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-580-1. 591 + 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] source of synonymy (from synonym): Boero, Ferdinando (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Maine [details] Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] Saint Andrews [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: umbrella up to 200 mm wide, wider than high [details] Distribution: Arctic to Rhode Island [details] Habitat: upper epipelagic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117730 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Staurophora mertensii Brandt, 1838. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117730 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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