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Hydra vulgaris Pallas, 1766 
AphiaID: 290157

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 americana Hyman, 1929 (synonym)
 Hydra carnea Agassiz, 1851 (synonym)
 Hydra littoralis Hyman, 1931 (synonym)
 Hydra magnipapillata Itô, 1947 (synonym)
 Hydra trembleyi Haacke, 1879 (synonym)
 Moerisia alberti Leloup, 1938 (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): 450 [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): 104 [details]

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

from synonym: Martínez DE, Iñiguez AR, Percell KM, Willner JB, Signorovitch J, Campbell RD. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of Hydra (Cnidaria: Hydridae) using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 57(1):403-10 , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2010.06.016 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Itô, T., 1947. A new fresh-water polyp, Hydra magnipapillata n. sp. from Japan. Sci. Rep. Tôhoku Univ. -418 1: 6-10.
page(s): 6 [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: 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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English common hydra  [details]
German gemeiner Süßwasserpolyp  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Variety Hydra vulgaris var. aurantiaca Ehrenberg, 1838
Environment fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (263 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (37413 nucleotides; 543 proteins)
To PESI
Note  Distribution: cosmopolitan [details]
Image 
Leloup (1952, fig. 44)
Leloup (1952, fig. 44)
added on 2009-09-10 - author: E. Leloup
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290157
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
2010-06-22 05:45:44Z  checked  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Hydra vulgaris 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=290157 on 2013-05-22
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