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Nemertesia antennina (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 117809

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Plumulariidae (Family) > Nemertesia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Nemertesia Lamouroux, 1812
Synonymised
taxa
  Antennularia antennina (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Antennularia indivisa Lamarck, 1816 (synonym)
Nemertesia antennina irregularis (Quelch, 1885)
Nemertesia irregularis (Quelch, 1885) (synonym)
Nemertesia perrieri var. antennoides (Billard, 1901) (synonym)
Nemertesia pinnata (Nutting, 1900) (synonym)
Sertularia antennina 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: Bromley and Bleakney, 1977 [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: 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Ramil, F. & W. Vervoort (1992). Report on the Hydroida collected by the "BALGIM" expedition in and around the Strait of Gibraltar. Zool. Verh., Leiden 277:3-262, available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/317860
page(s): 172 [details] [view taxon]


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]

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]

from synonym: Van Beneden, P. J. 1867a. Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique (polypes). Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Belgique 36: 1-207, plates I-XIX. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Galathea II, Danish Deep Sea Expedition 1950-52 (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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch gewone zeespriet  [details]
Dutch zeebaard  [details]
Dutch zeespriet  [details]
English sea beard  [details]
French hydraire antenne  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Nemertesia antennina irregularis (Quelch, 1885) accepted as Nemertesia antennina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Boulogne-sur-Mer [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
East North Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostduinkerke [details]
Oostende [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Villefranche-Sur-Mer [details]
West North Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Westhinder [details]
Wimereux [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links BIOTIC
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: colonial, no medusae [details]

Distribution: cosmopolitan [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat: shelf [details]

additional information: Allman (1871) reported reduced medusoids in Nemertesia antennina (L. 1758), but this observation has not been confirmed by further studies (see Millard, 1975; Hughes, 1977). [details]
Images 
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Nemertesia antennina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Nemertesia antennina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Nemertesia antennina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Nemertesia antennina (Linnaeus, 1758)
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117809
Taxonomic
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Nemertesia antennina (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=117809 on 2013-05-25
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