Hydrozoa taxon details

Pliobothrus Pourtalès, 1868 
AphiaID: 117244

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Cnidaria > Hydrozoa > Hydroidolina > Anthoathecata > Filifera > Stylasteridae
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Pliobothrus symmetricus Pourtalès, 1868 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Stylasteridae Gray, 1847
Synonymised
taxa
  Steganopora
Sources  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: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., and J.A. Grant-Mackie, 1993. Review of the fossil Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the New Zealand region. New Zealand J. Geol. Geoph. 36 1: 1-8. [details]

redescription: Zibrowius, H. & S.D. Cairns, 1992. Revision of the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris, sér. A, Zool. 153 : 1-136. [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1983. A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bull. mar. Sci. 33 2: 427-508. [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1986. A revision of the Northwest Atlantic Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Smithson. Contr. Zool. 418 : 1-131., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Zoology/pdf_hi/SCTZ-0418.pdf [details]

from synonym: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J.Van Der Land, 1999. Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin 459: 13-46. [details] [view taxon]

identification resource: Cairns, S. D., 1992. A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 3. Keys to the genera. Bull Mar. Sci. 49(1-2): 538-545.  [details]

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taxa

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 Species Pliobothrus echinatus Cairns, 1986
Species Pliobothrus fistulosus Cairns, 1991
Species Pliobothrus gracilis Zibrowius & Cairns, 1992
Species Pliobothrus spinosus (Hickson & England, 1905)
Species Pliobothrus symmetricus Pourtalès, 1868
Species Pliobothrus tubulatus (Pourtalès, 1867)

Species Pliobothrus seriatus Broch, 1942 accepted as Phalangopora regularis Kirkpatrick, 1897
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117244
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2006-09-27 07:06:07Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-11-21 16:41:40Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Pliobothrus Pourtalès, 1868. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database at http://www.marinespecies.eu/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117244 on 2013-05-18