WoRMS taxon details
Apolemia contorta (Margulis, 1976)
746147 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:746147)
accepted
Species
Tottonia contorta Margulis, 1976 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Tottonia contorta Margulis, 1976) Margulis, R. Ya. 1976. New genera of the suborder Physophorae from the Indian Ocean. Zool. Zh. 55 (8): 1244-1246. (In Russian).
page(s): 1246 [details]
page(s): 1246 [details]
Type locality contained in Bay of Bengal
type locality contained in Bay of Bengal [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2026). World Hydrozoa Database. Apolemia contorta (Margulis, 1976). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=746147 on 2026-09-19
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Nomenclature
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(of Tottonia contorta Margulis, 1976) Margulis, R. Ya. 1976. New genera of the suborder Physophorae from the Indian Ocean. Zool. Zh. 55 (8): 1244-1246. (In Russian).
page(s): 1246 [details]
basis of record Siebert, S.; Pugh, P.R.; Haddock, S.H.D.; Dunn, C.W. (2013). Re-evaluation of characters in Apolemiidae (Siphonophora), with description of two new species from Monterey Bay, California. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3702 (3): 201-232., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3702.3.1
page(s): 224 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 1246 [details]
basis of record Siebert, S.; Pugh, P.R.; Haddock, S.H.D.; Dunn, C.W. (2013). Re-evaluation of characters in Apolemiidae (Siphonophora), with description of two new species from Monterey Bay, California. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3702 (3): 201-232., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3702.3.1
page(s): 224 [details] Available for editors
[request]Ecology
ecology source
Lindsay, D.J. (2008). Cnidaria in Section 5: Middle and deep biological communities: plankton, nekton. pp.295-320. In: Deep Sea Life, Biological observations using research submersibles. Publisher: JAMSTEC. 512pp. In Japanese. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
