WoRMS taxon details
Nanomia cara Agassiz, 1865
AphiaID: 135496
AphiaID: 135496
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Physonectae (Suborder) > Agalmatidae (Family) > Nanomia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Nanomia A. Agassiz, 1865 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Agalmopsis elegans (Sars, 1846) in part Cupulita cara Haeckel, 1888 Cupulita sarsii Haeckel, 1888 Stephanomia cara Bigelow, 1911, in part | ||||||||||
| 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): 32 (in part), pl. 5 figs 1-6; pl.6 figs 1-19 [details] original description: Agassiz, A. 1865b. North American Acalephae. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 2: 1-234., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/1837 page(s): 200, figs 331-350 [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: 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: Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230. page(s): 72, fig.37 [details] additional source: Kramp, P. L. 1942. Siphonophora. The Godthaab Expedition 1928. Medd. Grønl. 80 (8): 3-24. page(s): 13 [details] additional source: Fewkes, J.W., 1888. On certain medusae from New England. In: Studies from the Newport marine zool. Lab. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 13 7: 209-240. page(s): 213, pls 1-3 [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Hosia, A., & Bamstedt, U. 2008. Seasonal abundance and vertical distribution of siphonophores in western Norwegian fjords. Journal of Plankton Research 30: 951-962. page(s): 951 [details] additional source: Rossi, S., Youngbluth, M. J., Jacoby, C. A., Pages, F., & Garrofe, X. 2008. Fatty acid trophic markers and trophic links among seston, crustacean zooplankton and the siphonophore Nanomia cara in Georges Basin and Oceanographer Canyon (NW Atlantic). Scientia Marina 72: 403-416. page(s): 403-416, fig.2 [details] basis of record (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): 367 [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Bedot, M. 1896. Les siphonophores de la Baie d’Amboine. Etude suivie d’une revision de la famille des Agalmidae. Rev. suisse Zool. 3 (3): 367-414. page(s): 408 [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): 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): 349 [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Pugh, P. R. Confirmed records of Siphonophorae found below 500 m depth (personal database). [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] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (59 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), lower St. Lawrence estuary, upper Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone off Sept- Iles), and 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) to Cobscook Bay [details] Distribution: N Atlantic only, Pagès et al’06, Rossi et al’08 [details] Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan, mainly temperate [details] Habitat: epipelagic [details] Habitat: upper epipelagic and glacial [details] Taxonomy: Order: Physonectae and Family: Agalmatidae according to Trott (2004). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135496 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Nanomia cara Agassiz, 1865. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135496 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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