WoRMS taxon details
Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 124967
AphiaID: 124967
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Ophiuroidea (Class) > Euryalida (Order) > Gorgonocephalidae (Family) > Gorgonocephalus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Gorgonocephalus Leach, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Asterias caput-medusae Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym) Astrophyton linckii Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym) Astrophyton scutatum Fleming, 1828 (synonym) Gorgonocephalus linckii Lyman, 1882 (synonym) Gorgonocephalus scutatum (Fleming, 1828) (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, 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. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Lyman, T. 1882. Report on the Opiuroidea. Report of the Scientific Results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873-76. Zoology, 5(1), 1-386. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Müller, J.H.; Troschel, F.H. 1842. System der Asteriden. , 1-134. Vieweg: Braunschweig [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Fleming J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusca, and radiata of the United Kingdom. Edinburgh, xxiii + 565 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [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 |
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | British Isles [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Iceland [details] North Scotland [details] Norway [details] Orkney Islands [details] Shetland Islands [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Ireland [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Breeding: Eggs released, larvae not known. Juveniles of the Arctic species G. eucnemis are known to live on, or in, the polyps of alcyonarians (Patent, 1970) [details] Distribution: In depths of more than 150 m, on rough ground where currents are strong, off northern Scotland, the Orkneys and Shetlands, deeper than 200 m west of Ireland [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:124967 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Stöhr, S.; Hansson, H. (2013). Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae. In: Stöhr, S., O’Hara, T. (Eds) (2013). World Ophiuroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=124967 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||
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