WoRMS name details
Eucratea chelata (Linnaeus, 1758)
153796 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153796)
unaccepted (synonym)
Species
- Variety Eucratea chelata var. gracilis Hincks, 1880 accepted as Scruparia ambigua (d'Orbigny, 1841) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Eucratea chelata var. repens Hincks, 1880 accepted as Scruparia chelata (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Sertularia chelata Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors 
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Sertularia chelata Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Prenant, M. (1931). Sur une collection de bryozoaires de la Mer du Nord appartenant au Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique [On a collection of bryozoans of the North Sea belonging to the Musée Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique]. <i>Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 7(17)</i>: 1-6 (look up in IMIS) [details]
[request]basis of record Prenant, M. (1931). Sur une collection de bryozoaires de la Mer du Nord appartenant au Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique [On a collection of bryozoans of the North Sea belonging to the Musée Royal D'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique]. <i>Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 7(17)</i>: 1-6 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (1998). Cheilostomatous Bryozoa: 1. Aeteoidea - Cribrilinoidea: notes for the identification of British species. 2nd ed. <i>Synopses of the British fauna (new series)</i>, 10. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-261-7. vii, 366 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
