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Hydractinia americana (Mayer, 1910) 
AphiaID: 157955

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Hydractiniidae (Family) > Hydractinia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hydractinia van Beneden, 1841
Synonymised
taxa		  Hydractinia selena (Mills, 1976) (synonym)
 Podocoryne americana (synonym)
 Podocoryne carnea var. americana Mayer, 1910 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Edwards, C., 1972. The hydroids and the medusae Podocoryne areolata , P. borealis and P. carnea. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 52 1: 97-144.
page(s): 133 [details]

basis of record: Calder, D. 2003 MS. Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy. [details]

basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: W. Vervoort, P. Schuchert & J. van der Land, 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Shih, C.T., 1977. A guide to the Jellyfish of Canadian Atlantic waters. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Natural History Series 5 : 1-190. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Calder, D. R. and S. D. Cairns. 2009. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 381–394 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Mills, C.E., 1976. Podocoryne selena, a new species of hydroid from the Gulf of Mexico, and a comparison with Hydractinia echinata. Biol. Bull. mar. biol. Lab. Woods Hole 151 1: 214-224.
page(s): 214 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Miglietta, M. P., Schuchert, P., & Cunningham, C. W. 2009. Reconciling genealogical and morphological species in a worldwide study of the family Hydractiniidae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Zoologica Scripta 38: 403-430.
page(s): 420 [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Cobscook Bay [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North America [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: colonial [details]

Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence, Bay of Fundy, Gulf of Maine [details]

Taxonomy: Order: Anthoathecatae according to Trott (2004). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157955
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-24 16:52:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
2010-03-15 14:18:34Z  checked  Schuchert, Peter
2012-11-23 09:55:06Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Hydractinia americana (Mayer, 1910). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157955 on 2013-05-21
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