Hydrozoa taxon details

Turritopsis polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862)

284468  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:284468)

accepted
Species
Medusa sanguinolenta Modeer, 1791 · unaccepted (possible synonym)
Oceania polycirrha Keferstein, 1862 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
Oceania sanguinolenta (Modeer, 1791) · unaccepted (possible synonym)
Turritopsis polynema Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Oceania polycirrha Keferstein, 1862) Keferstein, Wilhelm. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1-147 plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773
page(s): 26, pl. 2 figs 11-13 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Note English Channel, France, Normandy,...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality English Channel, France, Normandy, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, months August to October [details]
Distribution Turritopsis nutricula is likely not present along the Euroean coasts; all well documented cases belong either to T....  
Distribution Turritopsis nutricula is likely not present along the Euroean coasts; all well documented cases belong either to T. polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862) or to T. dohrnii (see Schuchert, 2004. The distribution of T. plycirrha is North-East Atlantic. T. nutricula is confined to the Western Atlantic [details]
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Turritopsis polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=284468 on 2024-03-29
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original description  (of Turritopsis polynema Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 66; note: invlaid new name for Oceania polycirrha Keferstein, 1862 [details]   

original description  (of Medusa sanguinolenta Modeer, 1791) Modeer A. (1791). Tentamen systematis medusarum stabiliendi. <em>Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum.</em> 8(Appendix): 19-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42019836
page(s): 26 [details]   

original description  (of Clavula gossii Wright, 1859) Wright, T.S. (1859). Observations on British zoophytes. <em>The Edinburgh new philosophical journal.</em> 10:105-114, plates 8-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25486569
page(s): 105, pl. 8 fig. 1 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Oceania polycirrha Keferstein, 1862) Keferstein, Wilhelm. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1-147 plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773
page(s): 26, pl. 2 figs 11-13 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record Vervoort, W.; Schuchert, P. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS[details]   

redescription Schuchert, P. (2004). Revision of the European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): families Oceanidae and Pachycordylidae. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 111 2: 315-369., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41187667
page(s): 322 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution Turritopsis nutricula is likely not present along the Euroean coasts; all well documented cases belong either to T. polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862) or to T. dohrnii (see Schuchert, 2004. The distribution of T. plycirrha is North-East Atlantic. T. nutricula is confined to the Western Atlantic [details]

Type locality English Channel, France, Normandy, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, months August to October [details]