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Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni Moser, 1925 
AphiaID: 231599

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Siphonophorae (Order) > Physonectae (Suborder) > Pyrostephidae (Family) > Pyrostephos (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pyrostephos Moser, 1925
Sources  basis of record: RAMS Hydrozoa checklist from Dr. Álvaro L. Peña Cantero (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: G.M. Mapstone & J. van der Land, 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Pugh, P. R. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

redescription: Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230.
page(s): 76, figs 40-44 [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Southern Ocean [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
Notes  Biology: locally abundant [details]

Habitat: epi-bathypelagic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231599
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-05-29 14:23:10Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
2009-03-25 13:42:27Z  changed  Mapstone, Gill
  
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  Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni Moser, 1925. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231599 on 2013-05-23
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