Saccoglossus kowalevskii Agassiz, 1873 
AphiaID: 137600

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Hemichordata > Enteropneusta > [unassigned] Enteropneusta > Harrimaniidae > Saccoglossus

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Typetaxon of		Saccoglossus Schimkewitsch, 1892
Parent		Saccoglossus Schimkewitsch, 1892
Sources		original description: Agassiz A (1873) The history of Balanoglossus and Tornaria. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 9: 421-436. [details] basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Hemichordata, 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. 336 (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: 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: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Carolinian [details] Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence - Eastern Scotian Shelf [details] Scotian Shelf [details] Virginian [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (413377 nucleotides; 13153 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Hemichordata Collection To ITIS
Notes		Diet: mucusciliary feeders, but also swallow a considerable amount of sand and presumably obtain nourishment from detritus ingested at the same time [details] Distribution: western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Cobscook Bay [details] Habitat: infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate but may be indistinguishable externally; fertilization is external (dispersed in water) [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137600
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2006-04-18 12:43:45Z   changed   van der Land, Jacob 2008-01-04 16:37:03Z   changed   van der Land, Jacob 2011-08-31 21:00:22Z   changed   Konikoff, Charlotte
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		Citation: Konikoff, C.; van der Land, J. (2013). Saccoglossus kowalevskii Agassiz, 1873. In: Shenkar, N; Swalla, B.J.; van der Land, J. (2013) Hemichordata World Database. Accessed through: Shenkar, N; Swalla, B.J.; van der Land, J. (2013) Hemichordata World Database at http://www.marinespecies.org/hemichordata/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137600 on 2013-05-25