WoRMS taxon details
Amphiporus lactifloreus (Johnston, 1828)
AphiaID: 122666
AphiaID: 122666
| 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 lacteiflorus (synonym) Amphiporus laetifloreus (synonym) Amphiporus loetofloreus (synonym) Borlasia alba (synonym) Borlasia mandilla (synonym) Ditactorrhochma mandilla (synonym) Gordius albicans (synonym) Nemertes lactiflora (synonym) Nemertes lactiflorea (synonym) Nemertes mandilla (synonym) Omatoplea violacea (synonym) Ommatoplea glauca (synonym) Planaria lactiflorea (synonym) Polia glauca Quatrefages, 1846 (synonym) Polia pusilla Delle Chiaje, 1828 (synonym) Polia violacea Quatrefages, 1846 (synonym) Polystemma roseum (synonym) Prostoma lactiflorea (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: 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: 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] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: (Johnston, 1827-28) [details] 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 100 mm by 5 mm [details] Distribution: Lower St. Lawrence Estuary; Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [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:122666 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Gibson, R. (2013). Amphiporus lactifloreus (Johnston, 1828). 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=122666 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||
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