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Atolla wyvillei Haeckel, 1880 
AphiaID: 135282

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Coronatae (Order) > Atollidae (Family) > Atolla (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Atolla Haeckel, 1880
Sources  basis of record: Cornelius, P.F.S. (2001). Cubozoa, 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. 111 (look up in IMIS[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: Larson, R.J. 1976. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. Cnidaria: Scyphozoa. NOAA Techical Report NMFS Circular 397. 18 p. [details]

additional source: Gershwin, L. (2009). Staurozoa, Cubozoa, Scyphozoa (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

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
 
Language   Name 
English Wyville's crownjelly  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: small or medium size medusae: about 15-200 mm diameter [details]

Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras [details]

Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details]

Habitat: mesopelagic, bathypelagic [details]
Images 
Atolla wyvillei
Atolla wyvillei
added on 2010-07-27 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Atolla medusae from bathypelagic RMT sample
Atolla medusae from bathypelagic RMT sample
added on 2012-03-07 - author: Siegel, Volker
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Atolla wyvillei
Atolla wyvillei
added on 2012-10-09 - author: Edith Widder, Operation Deep Scope 2005 (NOAA–OE) ()
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To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)  
To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135282
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Cornelius, Paul
  
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  Citation: Cornelius, P. (2013). Atolla wyvillei Haeckel, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135282 on 2013-05-23
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