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Bougainvillia superciliaris (L. Agassiz, 1849) 
AphiaID: 117333

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Cnidaria > Hydrozoa > Hydroidolina > Anthoathecata > Filifera > Bougainvilliidae > Bougainvillia
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830
Sources  original description: Agassiz, L. (1849). Contributions to the natural history of the Acalephae of North America. Part I. On the naked-eyed medusae of the shores of Massachusets in their perfect states of development. Mem. Am. Acad. Arts Sci., n. ser. 4 9: 221-316. pls 1-8.
page(s): 273 [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: Calder, D. 2003 MS. Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy. [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 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: Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190. [details]

additional source: Schuchert, P. 2009a. Anthoanthecata (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]

redescription: Schuchert, P. 2007. The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. Revue suisse de Zoologie 114: 195-396
page(s): 220 [details]


Environment marine
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
East North Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 67 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North East Pacific [details]
North Pacific [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saint Andrews [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: colonial [details]

Dimensions: umbrella height and width 7-9 mm [details]

Distribution: Bay of Fundy; Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrador (Western slope of Newfoundland, including southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50 m in the area southwest of Newfoundland); Cobscook Bay [details]

Habitat: upper epipelagic [details]

Type locality: Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117333
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: CaRMS (2013). Bougainvillia superciliaris (L. Agassiz, 1849). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117333 on 2013-05-26
  
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