WoRMS taxon details
Saccoglossus kowalevskii Agassiz, 1873
AphiaID: 137600
AphiaID: 137600
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Hemichordata (Phylum) > Enteropneusta (Class) > [unassigned] Enteropneusta (Order) > Harrimaniidae (Family) > Saccoglossus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Saccoglossus Schimkewitsch, 1892 | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Saccoglossus Schimkewitsch, 1892 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Agassiz A (1873) The history of Balanoglossus and Tornaria. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 9: 421-436. [details] basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Hemichordata, 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. 336 (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: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Carolinian [details] Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence - Eastern Scotian Shelf [details] Scotian Shelf [details] Virginian [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Unknown type: USNM 48694, locality Massachusetts (Woods Hole) [details]
Unknown type: USNM 64121, locality Massachusetts (Gloucester Harbor) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64131, locality Massachusetts (Woods Hole) [details] Unknown type: USNM 48695, locality Massachusetts (Woods Hole) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64135, locality Massachusetts (Buzzards Bay) [details] Unknown type: 64130, locality Massachusetts (near Woods Hole) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64127, locality Massachusetts (Naushon Island) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64128, locality Massachusetts (Vineyard Sound) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64122, locality Massachusetts (Naushon Island) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64123, locality Massachusetts (Naushon Island) [details] Unknown type: USNM 48697, locality Massachusetts (Woods Hole) [details] Unknown type: USNM 48698, locality Massachusetts (Woods Hole) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64126, locality Massachusetts (Vineyard Sound) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64125, locality Massachusetts (Vineyard Sound) [details] Unknown type: USNM 58876, locality North Carolina (Beaufort) [details] Unknown type: 58883, locality Rhode Island (Newport) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64124, locality Rhode Island (Newport) [details] Unknown type: USNM 48696, locality United States (Noank Harbor, Connecticut) [details] Unknown type: USNM 64129, locality United States (Noank Harbor, Connecticut) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (413377 nucleotides; 13153 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Hemichordata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: mucusciliary feeders, but also swallow a considerable amount of sand and presumably obtain nourishment from detritus ingested at the same time [details] Distribution: western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; 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); Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate but may be indistinguishable externally; fertilization is external (dispersed in water) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137600 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Konikoff, C.; van der Land, J. (2013). Saccoglossus kowalevskii Agassiz, 1873. In: Shenkar, N; Swalla, B.J.; van der Land, J. (2013) Hemichordata World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137600 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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