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Oikopleura Mertens, 1830

AphiaID

103367 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103367)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Labiata Fenaux, 1993

Synonymised names

Inopinata Fenaux & Youngbluth, 1991 · unaccepted (merged with Oikopleura)

Mesopelagica Fenaux & Youngbluth, 1991 · unaccepted (merged with Oikopleura)

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Subgenus Oikopleura (Coecaria) Lohmann, 1933
1. Species Oikopleura (Coecaria) fusiformis Fol, 1872
2. Species Oikopleura (Coecaria) gracilis Lohmann, 1896
3. Species Oikopleura (Coecaria) intermedia Lohmann, 1896
4. Species Oikopleura (Coecaria) longicauda (Vogt, 1854)
Subgenus Oikopleura (Vexillaria) Lohmann, 1933
1. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) albicans (Leuckart, 1854)
2. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) caudaornata (Fenaux & Youngbluth, 1991)
3. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) cophocerca (Gegenbaur, 1855)
4. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) dioica Fol, 1872
5. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) gaussica Lohmann, 1905
6. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) gorskyi Flood, 2000
7. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) inflata (Fenaux & Youngbluth, 1991)
8. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) labradoriensis Lohmann, 1892
9. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) parva Lohmann, 1896
10. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) rufescens Fol, 1872
11. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) vanhoeffeni Lohmann, 1896
12. Species Oikopleura (Vexillaria) villafrancae Fenaux, 1992
Species Oikopleura albida Lohmann, 1913 accepted as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) albicans (Leuckart, 1854)
Species Oikopleura bifurcata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 accepted as Fritillaria pellucida typica (Busch, 1851)
Species Oikopleura californica Essenberg, 1926 accepted as Oikopleura (Coecaria) gracilis Lohmann, 1896
Species Oikopleura drygalski Lohmann & Bückmann, 1926 accepted as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) gaussica Lohmann, 1905
Species Oikopleura flabellum Traustedt, 1880 accepted as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) dioica Fol, 1872
Species Oikopleura gaussi Lohmann, 1908 accepted as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) gaussica Lohmann, 1905
Species Oikopleura graciloides Bückmann, 1924 accepted as Oikopleura (Coecaria) gracilis Lohmann, 1896
Species Oikopleura huxleyi Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905 accepted as Megalocercus huxleyi (Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905) (genus transfer)
Species Oikopleura magna Langerhans, 1880 accepted as Stegosoma magnum (Langerhans, 1880) (genus transfer)
Species Oikopleura malmii Hartmann, 1878 accepted as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) dioica Fol, 1872
Species Oikopleura mediterranea Lohmann, 1899 accepted as Folia mediterranea (Lohmann, 1899) (genus transfer)
Species Oikopleura megastoma Aida, 1907 accepted as Megalocercus huxleyi (Ritter in Ritter & Byxbee, 1905)
Species Oikopleura microstoma Aida, 1907 accepted as Oikopleura (Coecaria) intermedia Lohmann, 1896
Species Oikopleura najadis Uebel, 1913 accepted as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) parva Lohmann, 1896
Species Oikopleura spissa Fol, 1872 accepted as Oikopleura (Coecaria) longicauda (Vogt, 1854)
Species Oikopleura tortugensis Brooks & Kellner, 1908 accepted as Oikopleura (Coecaria) intermedia Lohmann, 1896
Species Oikopleura vahoffeni Lohmann, 1896 accepted as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) vanhoeffeni Lohmann, 1896 (lapsus calami)
Species Oikopleura valdiviae Lohmann, 1905 accepted as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) gaussica Lohmann, 1905
Species Oikopleura velifera Langerhans, 1880 accepted as Oikopleura (Coecaria) longicauda (Vogt, 1854)
Species Oikopleura weddelli Lohmann, 1928 accepted as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) gaussica Lohmann, 1905
Species Oikopleura cornutogastra (Gegenbaur, 1855) represented as Oikopleura (Coecaria) fusiformis cornutogastra Aida, 1907 (Tokioka (1951) considered it synonomous with O. fusiformis - Fenaux (1993, 1998) ws more generous. and considered it a subspecies or forma)
Species Oikopleura vanhoffeni represented as Oikopleura (Vexillaria) vanhoeffeni Lohmann, 1896

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Mertens, D. H. (1830). Beschreibung der Oikopleura, einer neuen Molluskengattung. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg (1931). 6: 205-220., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29753207 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Only identified at generic level.

Distribution Only identified at generic level. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Garic, R. (2024). World List of Appendicularia. Oikopleura Mertens, 1830. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103367 on 2024-04-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2006-09-26 06:56:50Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2008-04-10 13:29:43Z

changed

Hopcroft, Russ

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original description Mertens, D. H. (1830). Beschreibung der Oikopleura, einer neuen Molluskengattung. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg (1931). 6: 205-220., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29753207 [details]

original description (of Mesopelagica Fenaux & Youngbluth, 1991) Fenaux, R. and Youngbluth, M. (1991). Two new mesopelagic appendicularians: Inopinata inflata gen. nov., sp. nov., Mesopelagica caudaornata gen. nov., sp. nov. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 71(3): 613-621., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400053182 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Appendicularia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 356 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

status source Fol H. (1872). Etudes sur les Appendiculaires du détroit de Messine. Memoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 21: 445-499., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14226804 [details]