Hydrozoa taxon details
Abietinaria abietina (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 117870
AphiaID: 117870
| Classification: Biota > Animalia > Cnidaria > Hydrozoa > Hydroidolina > Leptothecata > Conica > Sertulariidae > Abietinaria |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Abietinaria Kirchenpauer, 1884 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Abietinaria Kirchenpauer, 1884 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Sertularia abietina Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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: 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: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Schuchert, P., 2001a. Hydroids of Greenland and Iceland (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Meddelelser om Grønland, Bioscience 53 : 1-184. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cap Gris Nez [details] Doggersbank [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende [details] Sandettie Bank [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: colonies erect and sturdy, 5-12 cm, pinnate, monosiphonic, colour of living colonies amber to honey. Stem slightly flexuose, thicker than branches. Stem only with occasional nodes. Hydrocladia straight, equally and somewhat widely spaced, alternate, with some secondary branching. Hydrothecae of stem and branches similar, biseriate, alternate to subopposite. Hydrotheca flask-shaped, bulbous below, 1/5-1/2 adnate, about 0.9 mm in depth, opening circular, diameter about 0.3 mm, angle of opening with branch axis 45-90°, rim smooth, one circular operculum attached to abcauline side of rim, upper wall of hydrotheca often S-shaped in side view, abcauline wall concave. Gonothecae on hydrocladia, oblong, tapering below, about 1.3 mm long, circular opening on short neck, opening even, inside of neck with ring of perisarc projections. Embryos brooded in acrocysts. [details] Distribution: Widely recorded on both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean from the arctic region to Madeira, all Arctic Oceans, in the North Pacific Ocean south to California and Japan. Also known from Madagascar (Cornelius 1995b). Known also from eastern and western Greenland. At Iceland it occurs all around the island, depth range of 10-630 m. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117870 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Hydrozoa (2013). Abietinaria abietina (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=117870 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
