WoRMS taxon details
Amphiporus angulatus (Müller, 1774)
AphiaID: 122645
AphiaID: 122645
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nemertea (Phylum) > Enopla (Class) > Hoplonemertea (Subclass) > Monostilifera (Order) > Eumonostilifera (Suborder) > Amphiporidae (Family) > Amphiporus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Amphiporus Ehrenberg, 1831 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphiporus (Ommatoplea) angulata (synonym) Amphiporus angulatus angulatus (synonym) Fasciola angulata (synonym) Meckelia angulata (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Gibson, R. (2001). Nemertini (Nemertae), 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. 152-156 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gibson, R. (2005) Nemertina DB. Liverpool John Moore University, UK [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [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: Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| All child taxa [hide all] | Subspecies Amphiporus angulatus angulatus accepted as Amphiporus angulatus (Müller, 1774) Subspecies Amphiporus angulatus beringianus accepted as Amphiporus beringianus (Stimpson, 1857) Subspecies Amphiporus angulatus japonicus accepted as Amphiporus japonicus (Stimpson, 1857) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] North West Atlantic [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 9 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: generally for group, they are carnivorous; in some cases only the body juices are ingested but the whole prey may be taken in. feed on protozoans, other microfauna and at times prey their own size [details] Dimensions: length up to 150 mm by 4 mm [details] Distribution: Arctic south to Cape Cod and beyond in deep water, including Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: benthic, living under rocks or in burrows in soft substrata, or crawling among algae, hydroids, or in bottom debris [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate; fertilization is external for most species. Asexual reproduction also occurs by fragmentation [details] Synonymy: Amphiporus angulatus (partim) = Nipponnemertes bimaculata (Coe, 1901) Amphiporus angulatus (partim) = Amphiporus arcticus [details] Synonymy: Cerebratulus angulatus (partim) = Amphiporus angulatus [details] Taxonomy: Suborder: Monostilifera, according to Trott (2004).. species fragment easily when handled [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122645 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Gibson, R. (2013). Amphiporus angulatus. In: Norenburg, J.; Gibson, R. (2013) World Nemertea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=122645 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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