WoRMS taxon details
Idiellana pristis (Lamouroux, 1816)
AphiaID: 220588
AphiaID: 220588
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Sertulariidae (Family) > Idiellana (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Idiellana Cotton & Godfrey, 1942 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: W. Vervoort, P. Schuchert & J. van der Land, 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Calder, D. R. and S. D. Cairns. 2009. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 381–394 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] redescription: Schuchert, P. 2003. Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the Danish expedition to the Kei Islands. Steenstrupia 27 2: 137-256. page(s): 175 [details] [full text] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: colonial; fixed gonophores [details] Description: Pinnate colony, to 5 cm, with evenly spaced branches; hydrothecae in two or more opposite rows, lacking stalks, in many species partly sunken into skeletal tube. No medusa stage. Outline resembles snout of saw-fish Pristis. Habitat: shallow reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. Stings painful (Richmond, 1997). [details] Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220588 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Idiellana pristis (Lamouroux, 1816). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220588 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||||||||
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