WoRMS taxon details
Electra arctica Borg
AphiaID: 156075
AphiaID: 156075
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Bryozoa (Phylum) > Gymnolaemata (Class) > Cheilostomatida (Order) > Malacostegina (Suborder) > Membraniporoidea (Superfamily) > Electridae (Family) > Electra (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Einhornia arctica (Borg, 1931) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Electra Lamouroux, 1816 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: 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] | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (46 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Bryozoa Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: small microorganisms, including diatoms and other unicellualr algae [details] Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), 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), lower North Shore; middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [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] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156075 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bock, P.; Reverter Gil, O. (2013). Electra arctica Borg. 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=156075 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||
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