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Hydra viridissima Pallas, 1766 
AphiaID: 290156

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		  Chlorohydra viridissima (Pallas, 1766)
 Hydra viridis Linnaeus, 1767 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048
page(s): 31 [details] [full text]

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): 441 [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): 98 [details]

original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5
page(s): 1320 [details] [view taxon] [full text]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English green hydra  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To GenBank (79 nucleotides; 63 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
Images 
Pallas (1766), page 31
Pallas (1766), page 31
added on 2009-05-25 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2009-05-25 08:51:59

Pallas (1766), page 32
Pallas (1766), page 32
added on 2009-05-25 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2009-05-25 08:52:32

Hydra viridissima: Anthoathecata, Aplanulata, Hydridae
Hydra viridissima: Anthoathecata, Aplanulata, Hydridae
added on 2009-05-25 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-17 16:36:28
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290156
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
2009-05-25 06:13:45Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Hydra viridissima 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=290156 on 2013-06-19
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