Hydrozoa taxon details
Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 135479
AphiaID: 135479
| Classification: Biota > Animalia > Cnidaria > Hydrozoa > Hydroidolina > Siphonophorae > Cystonectae > Physaliidae > Physalia |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||
| Parent | Physalia Lamarck, 1801 | |||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Physalia utriculus (La Martiniere, 1787) (No longer considered a valid species, merely a variant of P. physalis) | |||||||||||
| 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: Mapstone, G. M. 2001. Siphonophora, 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. 120-122 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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: Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190. [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] additional source: Kirkpatrick, P.A.; Pugh, P.R. (1984). Siphonophores and velellids: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 29. E.J. Brill/W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07470-8. vi, 154 pp. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 26, fig.5 [details] additional source: Calder, D. 2003 MS. Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy. [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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] | |||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| |||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic Europe [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Boulogne-sur-Mer [details] Bretagne [details] Dunkerque [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Plymouth [details] Villefranche-Sur-Mer [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||
| Links | Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Float to 15 cm, with crest; many long tentacles hang beneath. Habitat: floating at surface, occasionally inshore. Distribution: pantropical and warm-temperate. Sting severe, but rarely lethal. Specimens with a single main tentacle are thought by some to be a distinct species (Richmond, 1997). [details] Distribution: Tropical Atlantic Ocean [details] | |||||||||||
| Images |
| |||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135479 | |||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
| |||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||
| Citation: Mapstone, G. (2013). Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database at http://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135479 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||
