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Turritopsis polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862) 
AphiaID: 284468

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Oceaniidae (Family) > Turritopsis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Turritopsis McCrady, 1857
Synonymised
taxa		  Clavula gossii Wright, 1859
 Cyanea coccinea Davis, 1841 (possible synonym)
 Medusa sanguinolenta Modeer, 1791 (possible synonym)
 Oceania sanguinolenta (Modeer, 1791) (indeterminate species)
 Turritopsis polynema Haeckel, 1879 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Keferstein, W., 1862. Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. Z. wiss. Zool. 12 1: 1-147.
page(s): 26 [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]

redescription: Schuchert, P., 2004. Revision of the European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): families Oceanidae and Pachycordylidae. Rev. Suisse Zool. 111 2: 315-369.
page(s): 322 [details]

from synonym: Van Beneden, P. J. 1867a. Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique (polypes). Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Belgique 36: 1-207, plates I-XIX. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution East North Atlantic [details]
Zeeland (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Biology: liefe cycle incompletely known [details]

Distribution: Turritopsis nutricula is likely not present along the Euroean coasts; all well documented cases belong either to T. polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862) or to T. dohrnii (see Schuchert, 2004. The distribution of T. plycirrha is North-East Atlantic. T. nutricula is confined to the Western Atlantic [details]
Image 
Slabber (1778, pl. 13)
Slabber (1778, pl. 13)
added on 2008-06-16 - author: M. Slabber
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2011-10-19 09:40:19
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:284468
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2009-12-29 08:28:59Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Turritopsis polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=284468 on 2013-05-22
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