WoRMS taxon details
Agalma elegans (Sars, 1846)
AphiaID: 135484
AphiaID: 135484
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Physonectae (Suborder) > Agalmatidae (Family) > Agalma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Agalma Eschscholtz, 1825 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Agalma punctata Leuckart, 1853 Agalma sarsii Leuckart, 1854 Agalmopsis elegans (Sars, 1846, in part) Agalmopsis sarsii Kolliker, 1853 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Sars, M. (1846). Fauna littoralis Norvegiae oder Beschreibung und Abbildungen neuer oderwenig bekannter Seethiere, nebst Beobachtungen über die Organisation,Lebensweise und Entwickelung derselben. 1-194. Johann Dahk. Christiania. page(s): p.32 in partim [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: 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: 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: Bigelow, H. B. 1911. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “Albatross”, from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. -Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., commanding. XXIII. The Siphonophorae. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zoöl. Harvard Coll. 38 (2): 171-401, 32 pls. page(s): 281, pl.18 figs 9-13, pl.19 figs 1-4 [details] additional source: Pugh, P. R. 1999b. Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. Pp. 868. page(s): 481 figs 3.6, 3.22 [details] additional source: Totton, A. K. 1954. Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean together with systematic and biological notes on related specimens from other oceans. Discovery Rep. 27: 1-162. page(s): 61 fig. 24 + frontispiece [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: Fewkes, J.W., 1881. Studies of the Jelly-fishes of Narragansett Bay. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 8 : 141-182. page(s): 163 pl. 9 figs 1-21, pl.10 [details] additional source: Dunn, C. W., Pugh, P. R., and Haddock, S. H. D. 2005b. Molecular phylogenetics of the Siphonophora (Cnidaria), with implications for the evolution of functional specialisation. Syst. Biol. 54 (6): 916-935. page(s): 922, figs 2b, 4a-b, 5, 6, 7, 8a-b [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: Mapstone, G. M. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 302 p page(s): 98-101, figs 19A-D [details] additional source: Jacobs, W. 1937. Staatsquallen. Nat. Volk (Frank.) 67 (10): 465-473 page(s): 594 fig. 7c [details] additional source: Totton, A. K. 1955. Development and metamorphosis of the larva of Agalma elegans (Sars) (Siphonophora Physonectae). In “Papers in Marine Biology and Oceanography”. Edited by M. Graham. Deep-Sea Res. 3 (Suppl): 239-241. page(s): 239, figs 1-9 [details] from synonym: Kawamura, T. 1911c. “Shidarezakura Kurage” and “Nagayoraku Kurage” (Cupulita picta, Metschnikoff, and Agalmopsis elegans, Sars). Zool. Mag. (Tokyo) (Dobuts. Zhasshi) 23 (7): 359-363, plate 7 (In Japanese). page(s): 362, pl. 7 figs. 11-17 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Leuckart, R., 1853. Zoologische Untersuchungen. I. Siphonophoren. page(s): 3, pl. 1 figs.1, 19-20; pl.2 figs.1-2, 5-7, 23 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Woltereck, R., 1905. Bemerkungen zur Entwicklung der Narcomedusen und Siphonophoren. Verh. dt. zool. Ges., 1905 : 106-122. page(s): 118 figs. 17-21 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Metschnikoff, E., 1874. Studien über die Entwickelung der Medusen und Siphonophoren. Zeitschrift. f. wiss. Zool. 24 : 15-81. page(s): 48 taf. 8 figs.1-13, taf. 9 figs 11-21, taf. 11 f [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Iwanzoff, N., 1896. Ueber den Bau, die Wirkungsweise und die Entwicklung der Nesselkapseln der Coelenteraten. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 1896 1-2: 95-161, 323-355. page(s): 334 pl.5 figs 18-22 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Leuckart, R. 1854. Zur nähern Kenntniss der Siphonophoren von Nizza. Arch. Naturgesch. 20 (1): 249-377. page(s): 331, pl.12 figs 17 (lower) and figs 21-27; pl.13 f [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Keferstein, W., and Ehlers, E. 1861. Beobachtungen über die Siphonophoren von Neapel und Messina. Zoologische Beiträge gesammelt im Winter 1859/60 in Neapel und Messina. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. page(s): 9, pl.1 fig.20, pl.2 fig. 6-11, pl. 3 fig.17 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Korotneff, A. 1884. Zur histologie der Siphonophoren. Mitt. Zool. Stn. Neapel 5 (2): 229-288 page(s): 259 pl.16 figs.49-50. 17 figs.55, 69, 74 pl.18 fi [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] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] German Bight [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Villefranche-Sur-Mer [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Bay of Fundy and Cobscook Bay [details] Distribution: This species is distributed in high abundances in the North-Atlantic ocean with a southern limit from Greenland, Iceland, Faroes, Shetlands and Hebrides. [details] Distribution: cosmopolitan [details] Distribution: Mills et al 1996, Bouillon et al 2004, Pagès et al’06 [details] Habitat: pelagic [details] Habitat: epipelagic, shallow waters [details] Reproduction: hermaphroditic [details] Taxonomy: Order: Physonectae and Family: Agalmatidae according to Trott (2004). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135484 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Agalma elegans (Sars, 1846). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135484 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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