WoRMS taxon details
Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 135479
AphiaID: 135479
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Cystonectae (Suborder) > Physaliidae (Family) > Physalia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Physalia Lamarck, 1801 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Physalia utriculus (La Martiniere, 1787) (No longer considered a valid species, merely a variant of P. physalis) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: 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] basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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: 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: Kirkpatrick, P.A.; Pugh, P.R. (1984). Siphonophores and velellids: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 29. E.J. Brill/W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07470-8. vi, 154 pp. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 26, fig.5 [details] additional source: Calder, D. 2003 MS. Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy. [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: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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] 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 | Atlantic Europe [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Boulogne-sur-Mer [details] Bretagne [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Dunkerque [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Atlantic [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] Plymouth [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Villefranche-Sur-Mer [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: pleustonic [details] Description: Float to 15 cm, with crest; many long tentacles hang beneath. Habitat: floating at surface, occasionally inshore. Distribution: pantropical and warm-temperate. Sting severe, but rarely lethal. Specimens with a single main tentacle are thought by some to be a distinct species (Richmond, 1997). [details] Dimensions: horizontal length of whole animal up to 300 mm or more [details] Distribution: Tropical Atlantic Ocean [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy; Virginian, south side of Cape Cod, and extending northward of the subprovince limit. [details] Distribution: mainly (sub)tropical [details] Habitat: pelagic [details] Reproduction: hermaphroditic [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135479 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135479 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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