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Hydra oligactis Pallas, 1766 
AphiaID: 290145

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Aplanulata (Suborder) > Hydridae (Family) > Hydra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hydra Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa		  Hydra corala Elrod & Ricker, 1902 (indeterminate species)
 Hydra dioecia Downing, 1905 (indeterminate species)
 Hydra monoecia Hefferan, 1902 (synonym)
 Hydra pallida Beardsley, 1904 (indeterminate species)
 Hydra rhaetica Asper, 1879 (synonym)
 Hydra roeselii Haacke, 1879 (synonym)
 Pelmatohydra oligactis (Pallas, 1766) (synonym)
Sources  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. 2010. The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Capitata Part 2. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 117: 337-555.
page(s): 446 [details]

redescription: Schuchert, P. 2012. North-West European Athecate Hydroids and their Medusae. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 59. The Linnean Society of London, London, pp. i-viii, 1-364.
page(s): 102 [details]

from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hyman, L.H., 1929. Taxonomic studies on the Hydra of North America. I. General remarks and description of Hydra americana, new species. Trans. Am. microsc. Soc. 48 3: 242-255.
page(s): 248 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hefferan, M., 1902. Experiments in grafting Hydra. Arch. EntwMech. Org. 13 : 565-587. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Haacke, W., 1879. Zur Speciesunterscheidung in der Gattung Hydra. Zool. Anz. 2 : 622-623., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37574#638
page(s): 622 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Asper, G., 1879. Die Hydra der Limmat. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 24 : 115-120. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Albanian hidra kafe  [details]
Environment fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Australia [details]
Europe [details]
North America [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (101 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1094 nucleotides; 69 proteins)
To ITIS
Images 
Leloup (1952, fig. 44)
Leloup (1952, fig. 44)
added on 2009-09-10 - author: E. Leloup
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked

Hydra oligactis from Geneva, Switzerland
Hydra oligactis from Geneva, Switzerland
added on 2011-03-04 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2011-03-04 11:49:14
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290145
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-28 06:47:01Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2011-03-04 07:51:44Z  checked  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Hydra oligactis Pallas, 1766. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290145 on 2013-05-21
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