WoRMS taxon details
Alatina alata (Reynaud, 1830)
AphiaID: 289378
AphiaID: 289378
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Cubozoa (Class) > Carybdeida (Order) > Alatinidae (Family) > Alatina (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Alatina Gershwin, 2005 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Carybdea alata Reynaud, 1830 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: J. van der Land (ed), update 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: 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] from synonym: Gershwin, L. 2005. Carybdea alata auct. and Manokia stiasnyi, reclassification to a new family with description of a new genus and two new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 51: 501–523. [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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Red Sea [details] South Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Height to 25 cm, width 1/3 to 1/2 of height. Bell thick, translucent, with smooth surface and four long tentacles banded pinkish yellow. Four T-shaped rhopalial pits, dull ochre coloured, situated more than 1/4 up from bell edge. Gastric cirri in small groups in stomach corners. Ocelli brownish-black. Strong swimmer, occasionally swarming. Habitat: occasionally inshore. Distribution: pantropical (Richmond, 1997). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289378 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Collins, Allen G. (2013). Alatina alata (Reynaud, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289378 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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