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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyorchis penicillatus (Eschscholtz, 1829) 
AphiaID: 290843

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCnidaria (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHydrozoa (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHydroidolina (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnthoathecata (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCapitata (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCorynidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyorchis (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyorchis penicillatus (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyorchis A. Agassiz, 1862
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertum penicillatum Eschscholtz, 1829
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertum penicillatum Eschscholtz, 1829
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyorchis campanula Haeckel, 1879 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyorchis minuta Murbach & Shaerer, 1902 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyorchis montereyensis Skogsberg, 1948 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyorchis pinnatus Haeckel, 1879 (synonym)
Sources  original description Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40493#page/5/mode/1up
page(s): 106 [details]

redescription Arai, M.N. & A. Brinckmann-Voss, 1980. Hydromedusae of British Columbia and Puget Sound. Can. Bull. Fish. aquat. Sci. 204 : 1-192.
page(s): 71 [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorpenicillate jellyfish  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
Canada
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCanadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
North Pacific Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEast North Pacific [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth Pacific [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorFAO fishing area 67 [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth East Pacific [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (11 nucleotides; 13 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (335 records) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Note 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBiology polyp unknown, large medusae [details]
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Polyorchis penicillatus (Eschscholtz, 1829)
Polyorchis penicillatu...

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show all]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290843
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2011-03-14 06:34:33Z  checked  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2011). Polyorchis penicillatus (Eschscholtz, 1829). In: Schuchert, P. (2017). World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290843 on 2017-07-12
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