WoRMS taxon details
Cyanea capillata (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 135301
AphiaID: 135301
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Discomedusae (Subclass) > Semaeostomeae (Order) > Cyaneidae (Family) > Cyanea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Cyanea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] 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: 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] additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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: 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] 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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Coast [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] 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] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] Oosterschelde [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (307 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 25 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Arctic to Florida [details] Distribution: Cosmopolitan species. [details] Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details] Habitat: coastal [details] Habitat: upper epipelagic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135301 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cornelius, P. (2013). Cyanea capillata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135301 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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