WoRMS name details
Acrochordium album Meyen, 1834
742572 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:742572)
unaccepted (basionym)
Species
Acrochordium Meyen, 1834 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1857
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Meyen, F.J.F. (1834). Beiträge zur Zoologie gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde, von Dr F.J.F. Meyen. V. Über das Leuchten des Meeres und Beschreibung einiger Polypen und anderer niederer Tiere. <em>Verhandlungen den Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher.</em> 16 (suppl. 1): 125-216., available online at https://books.google.ch/books?id=mHNPAAAAYAAJ&hl=de&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false, https://archive.org/details/darwin-online_1832-35_Meyen_A923/page/n315/mode/2up
page(s): 165, pl. 28 fig. 8 [details]
page(s): 165, pl. 28 fig. 8 [details]
Type locality contained in Azores part of the North Atlantic Ocean
, Note North Atlantic Ocean, near the Azores, on...
type locality contained in Azores part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details]
Type locality North Atlantic Ocean, near the Azores, on Sargassum natans [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Acrochordium album Meyen, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=742572 on 2025-06-06
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Nomenclature
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Meyen, F.J.F. (1834). Beiträge zur Zoologie gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde, von Dr F.J.F. Meyen. V. Über das Leuchten des Meeres und Beschreibung einiger Polypen und anderer niederer Tiere. <em>Verhandlungen den Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher.</em> 16 (suppl. 1): 125-216., available online at https://books.google.ch/books?id=mHNPAAAAYAAJ&hl=de&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false, https://archive.org/details/darwin-online_1832-35_Meyen_A923/page/n315/mode/2up
page(s): 165, pl. 28 fig. 8 [details]
page(s): 165, pl. 28 fig. 8 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality North Atlantic Ocean, near the Azores, on Sargassum natans [details]