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Haliclystus octoradiatus (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 135323

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Staurozoa (Class) > Stauromedusae (Order) > Eleutherocarpida (Suborder) > Lucernariidae (Family) > Haliclystus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Haliclystus James-Clark, 1863
Synonymised
taxa
  Lucernaria octoradiatus Lamarck, 1816
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: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
French méduse pédonculée  [details]
German Becherqualle  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of Middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), North slope of Anticosti Island, and the western slope of Newfoundland , including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50 m in the area southwest of Newfoundland to Cobscook Bay [details]

Habitat: midlittoral and infralittoral [details]

Taxonomy: Family: Lucernariidae according to Trott (2004). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135323
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Cornelius, Paul
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Haliclystus octoradiatus (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135323 on 2013-05-20
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