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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertum penicillatum Eschscholtz, 1829 
AphiaID: 732918

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 editorLeptothecata (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertum (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertum penicillatum (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPolyorchis penicillatus (Eschscholtz, 1829)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertum sensu L. Agassiz, 1862
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMelicertum penicillatum Eschscholtz, 1829
Source  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]

Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:732918
Taxonomic
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2013-06-28 06:10:36Z  created  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Melicertum penicillatum. In: Schuchert, P. (2017). World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=732918 on 2017-07-12
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