Obelia geniculata (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 117388

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Cnidaria > Hydrozoa > Hydroidolina > Leptothecata > Campanulariidae > Obelia

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Obelia Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Sources		original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Vervoort, W. (2009). Leptothecata (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Calder, D. R. and S. D. Cairns. 2009. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 381–394 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. Thalassia Salent. 24: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details] context source: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Dutch geknoopte zeedraad  [details] English bell hydroid  [details] English knotted thread hydroid  [details] French obélie  [details] German Glockenpolyp  [details] German Obeliapolyp  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Japan [details] Manicouagan [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Brunswick (Canada) [details] New Zealand [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oosterschelde [details] Roscoff [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] Westerschelde [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] Zeebrugge [details] Zeeland [details]
Feedingtype		suspension feeder [details]
Links		Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Barcode of Life (54 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (218 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (114 nucleotides; 57 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117388
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob
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		Citation: BeRMS (2013). Obelia geniculata (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117388 on 2013-05-25
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