WoRMS taxon details
Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758)
117832 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117832)
accepted
Species
Armenista sigmoides Haeckel, 1888 · unaccepted (synonym)
Holothuria spirans Forsskål, 1775 · unaccepted (synonym)
Medusa pocillum Montagu, 1815 · unaccepted (synonym)
Medusa velella Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (basionym)
Rataria cordata Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Rataria mitrata Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella antarctica Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella aurora Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella australis de Haan, 1827 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella caurina Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella cyanea Lesson, 1826 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella emarginata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella indica Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella lata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella limbosa Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella meridionalis Fewkes, 1889 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella mutica Lamarck, 1801 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella oblonga Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella oxyothone Brandt, 1835 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella oxyothone var. brachyothone Brandt, 1835 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella oxyothone var. oxyothone Brandt, 1835 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella pacifica de Haan, 1827 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella patellaris Brandt, 1835 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella pyramidalis Cranch, 1818 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella radackiana de Haan, 1827 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella sandwichiana de Haan, 1827 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella scaphidia Peron & Lesueur, 1807 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella septentrionalis Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella sinistra Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella tentaculata Lamarck, 1801 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella tropica Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velella vella (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine
(of Medusa velella Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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Description Resembles Porpita but with triangular sail on upper surface, to 4 cm. Colour blue. Habitat: floating on sea surface....
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical
Description Resembles Porpita but with triangular sail on upper surface, to 4 cm. Colour blue. Habitat: floating on sea surface. Distribution: pantropical (Richmond, 1997). [details]
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical [details]
Schuchert, P. (2023). World Hydrozoa Database. Velella velella (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117832 on 2023-03-23
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original description
(of Medusa velella Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 660 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Velella sinistra Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) Chamisso Adelbertus de & Eysenhardt Carolus Guilelmus (1821). De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione Terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanoff, duce Ottone di Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta, observatis Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. <i>Nova Acta physico-medica Academiae Cesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10</i>: 343-373, Plates 24 to 33., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020829
page(s): 363 [details]
original description (of Velella lata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) Chamisso Adelbertus de & Eysenhardt Carolus Guilelmus (1821). De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione Terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanoff, duce Ottone di Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta, observatis Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. <i>Nova Acta physico-medica Academiae Cesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10</i>: 343-373, Plates 24 to 33., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020829
page(s): 364 [details]
original description (of Velella oblonga Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) Chamisso Adelbertus de & Eysenhardt Carolus Guilelmus (1821). De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione Terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanoff, duce Ottone di Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta, observatis Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. <i>Nova Acta physico-medica Academiae Cesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10</i>: 343-373, Plates 24 to 33., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020829
page(s): 364 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (HKRMS) Morton, B. & Morton, J. (1983). <i>The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong</i>. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 350 pp. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Calder, D. R. (1988). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda: the Athecatae. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions, 148 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source 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]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. <i>Thalassia Salent. 24</i>: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Calder, D. R. and S. D. Cairns. 2009. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 381–394 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cairns, S.D.; Gershwin, L.; Brook, F.J.; Pugh, P.; Dawson, E.W.; Ocaña O.V.; Vervoort, W.; Williams, G.; Watson, J.E.; Opresko, D.M.; Schuchert, P.; Hine, P.M.; Gordon, D.P.; Campbell, H.J.; Wright, A.J.; Sánchez, J.A.; Fautin, D.G. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Schuchert, P. (2010). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Capitata Part 2. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 117: 337-555.
page(s): 476 [details]
redescription Calder, D. R. (1988). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda. The Athecatae. <em>Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions.</em> 148: 1-107.
page(s): 81 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 660 [details] Available for editors
[request] original description (of Velella sinistra Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) Chamisso Adelbertus de & Eysenhardt Carolus Guilelmus (1821). De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione Terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanoff, duce Ottone di Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta, observatis Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. <i>Nova Acta physico-medica Academiae Cesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10</i>: 343-373, Plates 24 to 33., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020829
page(s): 363 [details]
original description (of Velella lata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) Chamisso Adelbertus de & Eysenhardt Carolus Guilelmus (1821). De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione Terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanoff, duce Ottone di Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta, observatis Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. <i>Nova Acta physico-medica Academiae Cesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10</i>: 343-373, Plates 24 to 33., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020829
page(s): 364 [details]
original description (of Velella oblonga Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) Chamisso Adelbertus de & Eysenhardt Carolus Guilelmus (1821). De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione Terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanoff, duce Ottone di Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta, observatis Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. <i>Nova Acta physico-medica Academiae Cesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10</i>: 343-373, Plates 24 to 33., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020829
page(s): 364 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (HKRMS) Morton, B. & Morton, J. (1983). <i>The sea shore ecology of Hong Kong</i>. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 350 pp. [details]
context source (Bermuda) Calder, D. R. (1988). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda: the Athecatae. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions, 148 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source 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]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em> , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. <i>Thalassia Salent. 24</i>: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Calder, D. R. and S. D. Cairns. 2009. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 381–394 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Cairns, S.D.; Gershwin, L.; Brook, F.J.; Pugh, P.; Dawson, E.W.; Ocaña O.V.; Vervoort, W.; Williams, G.; Watson, J.E.; Opresko, D.M.; Schuchert, P.; Hine, P.M.; Gordon, D.P.; Campbell, H.J.; Wright, A.J.; Sánchez, J.A.; Fautin, D.G. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
[request] redescription Schuchert, P. (2010). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Capitata Part 2. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 117: 337-555.
page(s): 476 [details]
redescription Calder, D. R. (1988). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda. The Athecatae. <em>Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions.</em> 148: 1-107.
page(s): 81 [details] Available for editors
[request] 
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From editor or global species database
Description Resembles Porpita but with triangular sail on upper surface, to 4 cm. Colour blue. Habitat: floating on sea surface. Distribution: pantropical (Richmond, 1997). [details]From other sources
Biology colonial [details]Distribution circum-(sub)tropical [details]
Habitat pelagic [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Catalan | barqueta de Sant Pere | [details] |
| Corsican | ruzunu | [details] |
| Dutch | bezaantje | [details] |
| English | purple saillittle sailJack sail-by-the-windby-the-wind-sailorby-the-wind sailor | [details] |
| Finnish | purjehtijamaneetti | [details] |
| French | vélellebarque de Saint Pierre | [details] |
| German | Segelqualle | [details] |
| Italian | barchetta di San Pietro | [details] |
| Japanese | カツオノカンムリ | [details] |
| Norwegian | bidevindseiler | [details] |
| Spanish | velero | [details] |
| Swedish | bidevindseglare | [details] |
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Velella cyanea Lesson, 1826)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Armenista sigmoides Haeckel, 1888)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications) (from synonym Velella lata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Medusa velella Linnaeus, 1758)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (212 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (77 records) (from synonym Velella lata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Velella cyanea Lesson, 1826)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Armenista sigmoides Haeckel, 1888)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications) (from synonym Velella lata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Medusa velella Linnaeus, 1758)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (212 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (77 records) (from synonym Velella lata Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)
To ITIS
