| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Saccoglossus Schimkewitsch, 1892 |
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original description: King GM, Giray C, Kornfield I (1994). A new hemichordate, Saccoglossus bromophenolosus (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta: Harrimaniidae) from North America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 107: 383-390., available online at http://biostor.org/reference/81232 [details]
additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence - Eastern Scotian Shelf [details]
Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Coast and Shelf [details]
Puget Trough/Georgia Basin [details]
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| Links | | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Swalla Lab Page
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Hemichordata Collection
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| 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: This species has been found in the cold temperate northwest Atlantic and the cold temperate northeast Pacific. [details]
Etymology: The species name is derived from 2,4-dibromophenol and the Latin suffix -osus. [details]
Habitat: They are benthic and live in burrows. They can be found in subtidal zones, or in silty sand in intertidal zones. [details]
Length: S. bromophenolosus can attain a length up to 20cm. [details]
Reproduction: sexes are separate but may be indistinguishable externally; fertilization is external (dispersed in water) [details]
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| Images | | 
Saccoglossus bromophenolosus Photo from the BJ Swalla collection
added on 2010-09-03 - author: Shenkar, Noa
qualitystatus: checked by Shenkar, Noa on 2010-09-03 06:55:59 |
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Photographs of live Saccoglossus worms :(A) Saccoglossus bromophenolosus; (B) Saccoglossus pusillus
added on 2010-09-08 - author: Smith et al. 2003
qualitystatus: checked by Konikoff, Charlotte on 2011-09-01 21:43:02 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158484 |
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| | | Citation: Konikoff, C.; Swalla, Billie J.; van der Land, J. (2013). Saccoglossus bromophenolosus King, Giray & Kornfield, 1994. 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=158484 on 2013-06-19 |
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