WoRMS taxon details
Cyanophthalma cordiceps (Friedrich, 1933)
AphiaID: 122738
AphiaID: 122738
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nemertea (Phylum) > Enopla (Class) > Hoplonemertea (Subclass) > Monostilifera (Order) > Eumonostilifera (Suborder) > Tetrastemmatidae (Family) > Cyanophthalma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cyanophthalma Norenburg, 1986 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphiporus cordiceps sensu Friedrich, 1933 (synonym) Cyanophthalma vittata (Verrill, 1874) (synonym) Tetrastemma vittata (synonym) Tetrastemma vittatum Verrill (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] basis of record (from synonym): Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Miner, R. W. 1950. Field book of seashore life. G.P. Putnam & Sons. New York. 888 p. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Cobscook Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Digdeguash Estuary (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nemertea Collection | ||||||||||
| 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 [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 cordiceps sensu Friedrich, 1933 = Cyanophthalma cordiceps Amphiporus cordiceps (Jensen, 1878) is not a synonym to Cyanophthalma cordiceps [details] Taxonomy: species fragment easily when handled [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122738 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Gibson, R. (2013). Cyanophthalma cordiceps (Friedrich, 1933). 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=122738 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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