World Register of Deep-Sea species - Oikopleura Mertens, 1830

URMO taxon details

Oikopleura Mertens, 1830

Oikopleura sp.

AphiaID

103367 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103367)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Labiata Fenaux, 1993

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Subgenus Oikopleura (Coecaria) Lohmann, 1933
1. Species Oikopleura (Coecaria) fusiformis Fol, 1872
2. Species Oikopleura (Coecaria) gracilis Lohmann, 1896
3. Species Oikopleura (Coecaria) intermedia Lohmann, 1896
4. Species Oikopleura (Coecaria) longicauda (Vogt, 1854)
Subgenus Oikopleura (Vexillaria) Lohmann, 1933
Species Oikopleura cornutogastra (Gegenbaur, 1855) represented as Oikopleura (Coecaria) fusiformis cornutogastra Aida, 1907 (Tokioka (1951) considered it synonomous with O. fusiformis - Fenaux (1993, 1998) ws more generous. and considered it a subspecies or forma)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Mertens, D. H. (1830). Beschreibung der Oikopleura, einer neuen Molluskengattung. M�moires de l'Acad�mie imp�riale des sciences de St.-P�tersbourg (1931). 6: 205-220., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29753207 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Garic, R. (2025). World List of Appendicularia. Oikopleura Mertens, 1830. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://marinespecies.org/Urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103367 on 2025-05-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Oikopleura Mertens, 1830. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103367 on 2025-05-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2006-09-26 06:56:50Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2008-04-10 13:29:43Z

changed

Hopcroft, Russ

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original description Mertens, D. H. (1830). Beschreibung der Oikopleura, einer neuen Molluskengattung. M�moires de l'Acad�mie imp�riale des sciences de St.-P�tersbourg (1931). 6: 205-220., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29753207 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Appendicularia, 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. 356 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

status source Fol H. (1872). Etudes sur les Appendiculaires du d�troit de Messine. Memoires de la Soci�t� de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Gen�ve. 21: 445-499., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14226804 [details]