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Forskalia cuneata Chun, 1888 
AphiaID: 135500

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Physonectae (Suborder) > Forskaliidae (Family) > Forskalia (Genus)
Status species inquirenda
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Forskalia Kölliker, 1853
Sources  original description: Chun, C., 1888. Berichte uber eine nach den Canarischen Inseln im Winter 1887/88 ausgefuhrte Reise. Sber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. For 1888: 1141-1173. (English translation in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 3: 214-246, 1889). [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: Pugh, P. R. 2003. A revision of the family Forskaliidae (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Journal of Natural History 37: 1281-1327.
page(s): 1324 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Atlantic Europe [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
Note  Biology: found once [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135500
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Mapstone, Gill
2006-01-20 13:52:22Z  checked  Mapstone, Gill
2012-10-19 14:09:18Z  changed  Mapstone, Gill
  
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  Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Forskalia cuneata Chun, 1888. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135500 on 2013-05-24
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