WoRMS taxon details
Melophysa melo (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827)
AphiaID: 135499
AphiaID: 135499
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Physonectae (Suborder) > Agalmatidae (Family) > Melophysa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Melophysa Haeckel, 1888 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Athorybia melo Eschscholtz, 1829 Athorybia rosacea Bigelow, 1931 Rhizophysa melo Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 (basionym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Quoy, J. R. C. and Gaimard, J. P. 1824. Voyage au tour du monde fait par ordre du roi, sur les corvettes de S. M: l’Uranie et la Physicienne pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Histoire edicine s. Zoologie. Langlois, Paris. Atlas. 96 pls (Pls 86, 87). page(s): 180 pl.5c figs 1-9 [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: Chun, C. 1897. Die Siphonophoren der Plankton-Expedition. Band II. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung. Pp. 126, pls 5. page(s): 49, pl.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): 484 fig. 3.18 [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): 41 figs 7-9 [details] additional source: Pugh, P. R. 2006. The taxonomic status of the genus Moseria (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Zootaxa 26: 1-42. page(s): 41 [details] additional source: Bigelow, H. B. 1931. Siphonophorae from the Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition. Zoologica (N. Y.) 8 (11): 525-592 [details] source of synonymy (from synonym): Mapstone, Gill (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Eschscholtz, F. 1829. System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at http://books.google.nl/books?id=ISRXpAmcqq4C&dq=inauthor%3A%22Johann%20Friedrich%20Eschscholtz%22&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false page(s): 154 [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] Mediterranean Sea [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: rare [details] Distribution: mainly (sub)tropical [details] Distribution: Daniel 1974 [details] Habitat: epi-mesopelagic [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135499 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Melophysa melo (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135499 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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