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Bougainvillia inaequalis Fraser, 1944 
AphiaID: 284236

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Bougainvilliidae (Family) > Bougainvillia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830
Sources  original description: Fraser, C. McLean, 1944. Hydroids of the Atlantic coast of North America. : 1-451.
page(s): 51 [details]

basis of record: 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: Schuchert, P. 2009a. Anthoanthecata (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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]

Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (not certain) [details]
West North Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: colonial [details]

Taxonomic status: Indeterminate species that must be redescribed using material from the type locality, medusa must be reared. [details]

Type locality: Gulf of Mexico, Lousiana, USA [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:284236
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-09-08 12:01:38Z  checked  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Bougainvillia inaequalis Fraser, 1944. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=284236 on 2013-05-24
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