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Hippopodius hippopus (Forskål, 1776) 
AphiaID: 135449

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Calycophorae (Suborder) > Hippopodiidae (Family) > Hippopodius (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hippopodius Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Synonymised
taxa
  Gleba hippopus Forskål, 1776 (basionym)
Hippopodius luteus Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
Hippopodius neapolitanus Kolliker, 1853
Polyphyes ungulata Haeckel, 1888
Sources  original description: Forskål, P., 1776. Icones rerum naturalium, quas in itinere orientali depingi curavit Petrus Forskål, Prof. Haun. Post mortem auctoris ad Regis mandatum æri incisas edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Copenhagen: Mölleri : pp. 15.
page(s): 14, pl. 43, fig. E [details]


basis of record: Mapstone, G. M. 2001. Siphonophora, 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. 120-122 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Leloup, E. (1935). Les siphonophores de la rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer (Alpes Maritimes, France) [Siphonophores of the Rade of Villefranche-sur-Mer (Maritime Alps, France)]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 11(31): 1-12 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: Pugh, P. R. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Pugh, P. R. and R. Gasca. 2009. Siphonophorae (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 395–402 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: Carré, D. 1968. Sur le développement post-larvaire d’Hippopodius hippopus (Forskal). Cah. Biol. Mar. 9: 417-420
page(s): 417-420, fig. 1, pl. 1  [details]


redescription: Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230.
page(s): 139, pl.28 figs 1-2, 29 figs 1-3 [details]


source of synonymy (from synonym): Mapstone, Gill (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Haeckel, E. 1888. Report on the Siphonophorae collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. Zoology 28: 1-380, 50 pls.
page(s): 179, pl.29 figs 1-8 [details] [view taxon]


original description (from synonym): Quoy, J.R.C. & J.P. Gaimard, 1827. Observations zoologiques faites à bord de l'Astrolabe, en mai 1826, dans le détroit de Gibraltar. Annls Sci. nat. 10 : 1-239.
page(s): 172, pl. 4 figs 1-12 [details] [view taxon]


context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic Europe [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Villefranche-Sur-Mer [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Mills et al 1996, Bouillon et al 2004, Pagès et al’06 [details]

Distribution: Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia [details]

Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details]

Habitat: mainly epipelagic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135449
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Mapstone, Gill
2006-01-23 10:11:24Z  checked  Mapstone, Gill
2011-01-21 07:17:59Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
2012-11-13 09:40:09Z  changed  Mapstone, Gill
  
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  Citation: Mapstone, G.; Schuchert, P. (2013). Hippopodius hippopus (Forskål, 1776). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135449 on 2013-06-19
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