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Periphylla periphylla (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) 
AphiaID: 135294

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Coronatae (Order) > Periphyllidae (Family) > Periphylla (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Periphylla F. Müller, 1861
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: Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190. [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 Merchant-cap  [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]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 9 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence; Strait of Belle Isle and as far south as Virginia [details]

Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details]

Habitat: in deep water [details]

Habitat: upper epipelagic [details]

Habitat: Bathypelagic [details]

Habitat: Abyssopelagic [details]
Images 
Amazing Diversity. Marine life of Antarctica - From the surface to the abyssal plain.
Amazing Diversity. Marine life of Antarctica - From the surface to the abyssal plain.
added on 2008-08-17 - author: Torben Riehl, Nils Brenke, Hauke Flores, Michael Schroedl and Rebeca Zapata Guardiola ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Periphylla periphylla
Periphylla periphylla
added on 2011-02-01 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moira Galbraith ()
qualitystatus: checked by Lindsay, Dhugal on 2013-04-04 03:23:22
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135294
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Cornelius, Paul
2013-04-04 01:07:13Z  changed  Lindsay, Dhugal
  
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  Citation: Lindsay, D.; Cornelius, P. (2013). Periphylla periphylla (Péron & Lesueur, 1810). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135294 on 2013-05-22
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