WoRMS taxon details
Amphiporus bioculatus McIntosh, 1874
AphiaID: 122651
AphiaID: 122651
| 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 (Naredopsis) bioculatus (synonym) Hallezia bioculata (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: 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: 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: 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: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Roscoff [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI 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] Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras, 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] Taxonomy: Suborder: Monostilifera, according to Trott (2004).. species fragment easily when handled [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122651 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Gibson, R. (2013). Amphiporus bioculatus McIntosh, 1874. 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=122651 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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