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Hemichordata taxon details

Balanoglossus gigas (Müller in Spengel, 1893)

266573  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266573)

accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Spengel, J.W. (1893). Die Enteropneusten des Golfes von Neapel. <i>in</i>: Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. <em>Herausgegeben von der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, Berlin. pp. 756.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11517
page(s): 159; note: Decribed in Spengel, 1901 as Ptychodera gigas Fr. Müller n.sp., probably meaning that Fr. Müller suggested the name gigas.  [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Swalla, B.J.; van der Land, J. (2021). Hemichordata World Database. Balanoglossus gigas (Müller in Spengel, 1893). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/hemichordata/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266573 on 2024-03-28
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2008-01-04 16:37:03Z
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2020-09-16 08:16:37Z
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original description  (of Balanoglossus biminiensis Willey, 1899) Willey A (1899) Enteropneusta from the South Pacific, with notes on the West Indian species. Willey's Zoological Results III: 32-335. [details]   

original description  (of ) Spengel, J.W. (1893). Die Enteropneusten des Golfes von Neapel. <i>in</i>: Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. <em>Herausgegeben von der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, Berlin. pp. 756.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11517
page(s): 159; note: Decribed in Spengel, 1901 as Ptychodera gigas Fr. Müller n.sp., probably meaning that Fr. Müller suggested the name gigas.  [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Length B. gigas is the longest hemichordate described, and can grow up to 1.5m in length. [details]

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