Aphia name details
Leucothea formosa Mertens, 1833
1697521 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1697521)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine
Mertens, H. (1833). Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen über die Beroëartigen Akalephen. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. 6e série, Sciences mathématiques, physiques et naturelles.</em> 479-543. 13 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55630086
page(s): 500, pls. 2-3 [details]
page(s): 500, pls. 2-3 [details]
Note near Azores
Type locality near Azores [details]
WoRMS (2026). Leucothea formosa Mertens, 1833. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1697521 on 2026-08-17
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Mertens, H. (1833). Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen über die Beroëartigen Akalephen. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. 6e série, Sciences mathématiques, physiques et naturelles.</em> 479-543. 13 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55630086
page(s): 500, pls. 2-3 [details]
additional source Chun, C. (1880). Die ctenophoren des Golfes von Neapel undder angrenzenden Meeres-abschnitte. <em>Fauna and Flora des Golfes von Neapel.</em> 1: 313 pp., 16 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.39844
page(s): 296; note: synonymy to Eucharis multicornis [details]
source of synonymy Chun, C. (1898). Die Ctenophoren der Plankton-expedition. <em>Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung, Lipsius & Tischer. 2. K. a.</em> 1-30, pls. I-III.
page(s): 24 [details]
page(s): 500, pls. 2-3 [details]
additional source Chun, C. (1880). Die ctenophoren des Golfes von Neapel undder angrenzenden Meeres-abschnitte. <em>Fauna and Flora des Golfes von Neapel.</em> 1: 313 pp., 16 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.39844
page(s): 296; note: synonymy to Eucharis multicornis [details]
source of synonymy Chun, C. (1898). Die Ctenophoren der Plankton-expedition. <em>Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung, Lipsius & Tischer. 2. K. a.</em> 1-30, pls. I-III.
page(s): 24 [details]
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Type locality near Azores [details]
From editor or global species database
