WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Turritopsis polynema Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578 page(s): 66; note: invlaid new name for Oceania polycirrha Keferstein, 1862 [details]
original description
(of Medusa sanguinolenta Modeer, 1791) Modeer A. (1791). Tentamen systematis medusarum stabiliendi. <em>Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum.</em> 8(Appendix): 19-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42019836 page(s): 26 [details]
original description
(of Clavula gossii Wright, 1859) Wright, T.S. (1859). Observations on British zoophytes. <em>The Edinburgh new philosophical journal.</em> 10:105-114, plates 8-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25486569 page(s): 105, pl. 8 fig. 1 [details]
original description
(of Oceania polycirrha Keferstein, 1862) Keferstein, Wilhelm. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1-147 plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773 page(s): 26, pl. 2 figs 11-13 [details]
basis of record
Vervoort, W.; Schuchert, P. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
redescription
Schuchert, P. (2004). Revision of the European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): families Oceanidae and Pachycordylidae. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 111 2: 315-369., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41187667 page(s): 322 [details]
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Biology liefe cycle incompletely known [details]
Distribution Turritopsis nutricula is likely not present along the Euroean coasts; all well documented cases belong either to T. polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862) or to T. dohrnii (see Schuchert, 2004. The distribution of T. plycirrha is North-East Atlantic. T. nutricula is confined to the Western Atlantic [details]
Type locality English Channel, France, Normandy, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, months August to October [details]
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