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Pleurobrachia Fleming, 1822 
AphiaID: 106346

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Ctenophora (Phylum) > Tentaculata (Class) > Typhlocoela (Subclass) > Cydippida (Order) > Pleurobrachiidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Pleurobrachiidae Chun, 1880
Synonymised
taxa		  Pleurobrahia (misspelling)
 Pleurobranchia Gray, 1840 (Spelling variation?)
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Ctenophora, 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. 122-123 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Liley, R. (1958). Ctenophora. Replaced by sheet no. 146. Fiches d'identification du zooplancton, 82. ICES: Copenhagen, Denmark. 5 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

from synonym: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: NODC (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Species composition of meso- and macrozooplankton of the Black Sea (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Pleurobrachia arctica Wagner, 1885
Species Pleurobrachia australis (Benham, 1907)
Species Pleurobrachia bachei A. Agassiz, 1860
Species Pleurobrachia brunnea Mayer, 1912
Species Pleurobrachia cyanea (Chun, 1889)
Species Pleurobrachia globosa Moser, 1903
Species Pleurobrachia pigmentata Moser, 1903
Species Pleurobrachia pileus (O. F. Müller, 1776)
Species Pleurobrachia rhododactyla L. Agassiz, 1860
Species Pleurobrachia rhodopis Chun, 1879
Species Pleurobrachia striata Moser, 1907

Species Pleurobrachia crinita accepted as Euplokamis crinita (Moser, 1909)
Species Pleurobrachia dimidiata Eschscholtz, 1829 accepted as Eschscholthia dimidiata (Eschscholtz, 1829)
Species Pleurobrachia helicoides (Ralph & Kaberry, 1950) accepted as Euplokamis helicoides (Ralph & Kaberry, 1950)
Species Pleurobrachia latipharyngea Dawydoff, 1946 accepted as Bathyctena latipharyngea (Dawydoff, 1946)
Environment marine
Distribution Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Image 
Pleurobrachia
Pleurobrachia
added on 2006-09-08 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: checked by Lindsay, Dhugal on 2012-12-20 00:00:00
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106346
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Pleurobrachia Fleming, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106346 on 2013-05-20
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