WoRMS taxon details
Linuche unguiculata (Schwartz)
AphiaID: 221098
AphiaID: 221098
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Scyphozoa (Class) > Coronatae (Order) > Linuchidae (Family) > Linuche (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Linuche Eschscholtz, 1829 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Linuche draco (Haeckel, 1880) (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| 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: F.S. Cornelius and J. van der Land (eds), updates 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre [details] source of synonymy (from synonym): UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 13 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Tiny, to 2 cm. Bell straight-sided, flat-topped, with 16 vertical ridges and eight minute tentacles. Colour orange-brown, typically patterned with dots and dashes. Swims incessantly and rotates. Swarms near surface. Habitat: surface waters. Distribution: all warms seas (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221098 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Linuche unguiculata (Schwartz). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221098 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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