WoRMS taxon details
Alcyonidium polyoum (Hassall, 1841)
AphiaID: 153717
AphiaID: 153717
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Bryozoa (Phylum) > Gymnolaemata (Class) > Ctenostomatida (Order) > Alcyonidiidae (Family) > Alcyonidium (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Alcyonidium J.V.F.Lamouroux, 1813 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Hayward, P.J. (1985). Ctenostome bryozoans: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 33. E.J. Brill; W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07853-6. vii, 169 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Bromley and Bleakney, 1977 [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [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: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] additional source: Ryland J.S. & Porter J.S. (2003). The identity of Alcyonidium gelatinosum (Linnaeus, 1761) (Bryozoa: Ctenostomatida). Journal of Natural History 37 (18): 2179-2189 [details] additional source: Redant, F. (1976). Epibenthos. In : Nihoul, J.C.J. & De Coninck, L (Ed.)(1976). Project Sea final report: 7. Inventory of fauna and flora. Project Sea final report, 7: 167-202. [details] additional source: Winston, J. E. and F. J. Maturo Jr. 2009. Bryozoans (Ectoprocta) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1147–1164 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Coast (probably not valid) [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Goesse Sas [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] Wemeldinge [details] Yerseke [details] Zierikzee [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Bryozoa Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Small microorganisms, including diatoms and other unicellular algae. [details] Distribution: Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian. [details] Habitat: sessile, colonial on hard substratum epifauna in the marine environment [details] Predators: grazing organisms such as sea urchins and fish; also subject to competition and overgrowth from sponges, algae, and tunicates [details] Reproduction: sexual and asexual; bryozoan colonies consist of replicated series of zooids, each budded asexually from a predecessor. The founding zooid metamorphoses from the sexually produced larva. Hermaphroditic. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153717 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Reverter Gil, O. (2013). Alcyonidium polyoum (Hassall, 1841). In: Bock, P.; Gordon, D. (2013) World List of Bryozoa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153717 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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