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Lucernaria quadricornis O. F. Müller, 1776 
AphiaID: 135328

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Staurozoa (Class) > Stauromedusae (Order) > Eleutherocarpida (Suborder) > Lucernariidae (Family) > Lucernaria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Lucernaria O. F. Müller, 1776
Parent Lucernaria O. F. Müller, 1776
Synonymised
taxa
  Lucernaria pyramidalis Haeckel, 1880 (junior synonym)
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: 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: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

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

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
German Vierhorn Becherqualle  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Northern North Atlantic [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (70 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Greenland to Cape Cod [details]

Habitat: bathyal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Taxonomy: Family: Lucernariidae according to Trott (2004). [details]
Images 
Lucernaria quadricornis - stauromedusae
Lucernaria quadricornis - stauromedusae
added on 2011-03-04 - author: Nozères, Claude
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Lucernaria quadricornis in water
Lucernaria quadricornis in water
added on 2011-09-04 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135328
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Cornelius, Paul
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Lucernaria quadricornis O. F. Müller, 1776. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135328 on 2013-05-24
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