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Abylopsis eschscholtzii (Huxley, 1859)

Abylopsis eschscholtzii, mouth of Brunswick River, New South Wales, Australia

AphiaID

196656 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196656)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Abylopsis Chun, 1888

Orig. name

Aglaismoides eschscholtzii Huxley, 1859

Synonymised names

Abyla quincunx Chun, 1897 · unaccepted

Abylopsis quincunx Chun, 1888 · unaccepted (synonym)

Aglaisma quincunx Agassiz & Mayer, 1899 · unaccepted

Aglaismoides eschscholtzii Huxley, 1859 · unaccepted (basionym)

Aglaismoides quincunx Chun, 1897 · unaccepted

Chunia capillaria Mayer, 1900 · unaccepted

Eudoxia prismatica Gegenbaur, 1859 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Aglaismoides eschscholtzii Huxley, 1859) Huxley, Th.H., 1859. The oceanic Hydrozoa; a description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of H.M.S. "Rattlesnake", in the years 1846-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10599749
page(s): 60 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Bouillon et al 2004, Pagès et al’06

Distribution Bouillon et al 2004, Pagès et al’06 [details]

Distribution cosmopolitan, warm/temperate

Distribution cosmopolitan, warm/temperate [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Abylopsis eschscholtzii (Huxley, 1859). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196656 on 2024-05-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-01-26 10:00:11Z

created

Mapstone, Gill

2013-12-27 13:53:10Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Aglaismoides eschscholtzii Huxley, 1859) Huxley, Th.H., 1859. The oceanic Hydrozoa; a description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of H.M.S. "Rattlesnake", in the years 1846-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10599749
page(s): 60 [details]

original description (of Abylopsis quincunx Chun, 1888) Chun, C. (1888). Berichte über eine nach den Canarischen Inseln im Winter 1887/88. Sitzungsberichte der Königlidch Preussischen Akademie de Wissenschaften. 1888: 1141-1173. (English translation in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 3: 214-246, 1889)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29368183
page(s): 1160 [details]

original description (of Eudoxia prismatica Gegenbaur, 1859) Gegenbaur C. (1859). Neue Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Siphonophoren. Novorum actorum Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum. 27: 331-424, pls 26-32., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2063887
page(s): 363, figs 13-16 [details]

original description (of Abyla quincunx Chun, 1897) Chun, C. 1897. Uber den Bau und die morphologische Auffassung der Siphonophoren. Verh. Dtsch. Zool. Ges. 7: 48-111. [details]

context source (Bermuda) Moore, H.B. (1949). The zooplankton of the upper waters of the Bermuda area of the North Atlantic. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection 12(2):1-97, figs. 1-208. (i-1949) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V.; Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 1-868.
page(s): 511 [details]

additional source Pugh, P. R. & Gasca, R. (2009). Siphonophorae (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 395–402. 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]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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ecology source Sears, M. (1953). Notes on siphonophores. 2. A revision of the Abylinae. Bulletin of the Museum of comparative Zoölogy of Harvard College. 109: 1-119., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3886008 [details]

ecology source Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 1-868. [details]