WoRMS taxon details
Cnidaria
AphiaID: 1267
AphiaID: 1267
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor: included in ERMS 1.1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Phylum | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Animalia | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1998). Five Kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the Phyla of life on earth. 3rd edition. Freeman: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-7167-3027-8. xx, 520 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriquez, S.L. Romano, J.L. Stake. (2007). The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa (1668): 127-182, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01668p182.pdf [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa | Class Anthozoa Class Cnidaria incertae sedis Class Cubozoa Class Hydrozoa Class Scyphozoa Class Staurozoa Class Polypodiozoa (temporary name, phylogenetic relationships currently unclear) Class Scyphomedusae accepted as Scyphozoa | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1267 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Cnidaria. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1267 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||||||||
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