WoRMS taxon details
Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
AphiaID: 117270
AphiaID: 117270
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Conica (Suborder) > Aequoreidae (Family) > Aequorea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Aequorea aequorea (Forsskål, 1775) (invalid name) Medusa aequorea Forsskål, 1775 (invalid junior homonym of Medusa aequorea Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Péron, F. & C.A. Lesueur, 1810. Histoire générale et particulière de tous les animaux qui composent la famille des méduses. Annls Mus. Hist. nat. Paris 14 : 217-228. [details] basis of record: van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, 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. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Vervoort, W. (2009). Leptothecata (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Cornelius, P.F.S. (1995). North-West European thecate hydroids and their Medusae: part 1 introduction, Laodiceidae to Haleciidae: keys and notes for identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 50. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-254-4. vii, 347 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Navas-Pereira, D. & M. Vannucci (1991). The Hydromedusae and water masses of the Indian Ocean. Bolm Inst. Oceanogr., S. Paulo. 39(1): 25-60. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Boero, Ferdinando (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] FAO fishing area 67 (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North East Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Authority: Péron & Lesueur, 1810 [details] Biology: colonial, free medusae [details] Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details] Distribution: Maine to Texas [details] Remark: Only three medusa were sampled in 1999-2003 in the outher harbour of Zeebrugge: 2001-09-28: 1 ex (60 mm) 2002-07-16: 1 ex (12 mm) 2002-07-24: 1 ex (43 mm) [details] Spelling: In Müller (2004) the Genus is mentioned as Aequora [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117270 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Aequorea forskalea. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117270 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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