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Euphysa Forbes, 1848

Euphysa aurata medusae; Scotland, height about 1-2 mm
Euphysa aurata medusae; Scotland, height about 1-2 mm

117095  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117095)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Medusozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hydrozoa (Class)
  6. Hydroidolina (Subclass)
  7. Anthoathecata (Order)
  8. Aplanulata (Suborder)
  9. Corymorphidae (Family)
  10. Euphysa (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Euphysa aurata Forbes, 1848 (type by monotypy)
Dahlgrenella Miles, 1937 · unaccepted (synonym)
Euphysomma Kramp, 1962 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (possible synonym, inaedequately known)
Heteractis Allman, 1864 · unaccepted (preoccupied by Heteractis Milne...)  
preoccupied by Heteractis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 (Anthozoa)
Heterostephanus Allman, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
Hypolytus Murbach, 1899 · unaccepted (synonym)
Rhizotricha Stechow, 1919 · unaccepted (synonym)
Trichorhiza Russell, 1906 · unaccepted (preoccupied Trichorhiza Hampson,...)  
preoccupied Trichorhiza Hampson, 1905 (Insecta, Noctuidae)

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  1. Species Euphysa aurata Forbes, 1848
  2. Species Euphysa brevia (Uchida, 1947)
  3. Species Euphysa flammea (Hartlaub, 1902)
  4. Species Euphysa intermedia (Schuchert, 1996)
  5. Species Euphysa japonica (Maas, 1909)
  6. Species Euphysa monotentaculata Zamponi, 1983
  7. Species Euphysa peregrina (Murbach, 1899)
  8. Species Euphysa problematica Schuchert, 1996
  9. Species Euphysa ruthae Norenburg & Morse, 1983
  10. Species Euphysa scintillans Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010
  11. Species Euphysa tentaculata Linko, 1905
  12. Species Euphysa tetrabrachia Bigelow, 1904
  13. Species Euphysa vervoorti Brinckmann-Voss & Arai, 1998
  14. Species Euphysa arenicola (Salvini-Plawen, 1987) accepted as Euphysa aurata Forbes, 1848 (synonym)
  15. Species Euphysa farcta (Miles, 1937) accepted as Euphysa aurata Forbes, 1848 (synonym)
  16. Species Euphysa globator Leuckart, 1856 accepted as Pennaria disticha Goldfuss, 1820 (synonym (medusa))
  17. Species Euphysa mediterranea Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Euphysa aurata Forbes, 1848 (synonym)
  18. Species Euphysa obvoluta (Kramp, 1933) accepted as Gymnogonos obvolutus (Kramp, 1933) (unaccepted combination)
  19. Species Euphysa peregrinus (Murbach, 1899) accepted as Euphysa peregrina (Murbach, 1899) (incorrect gender of specific epithet)
  20. Species Euphysa taiwanensis (Xu & Huang, 2003) accepted as Corymorpha taiwanensis (Xu & Huang, 2003) (unaccepted combination)
  21. Species Euphysa virgulata A. Agassiz, 1865 accepted as Euphysa tentaculata Linko, 1905 (possible synonym)
  22. Species Euphysa australis von Lendenfeld, 1885 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Forbes, E. (1848). A monograph of the British naked-eyed Medusæ : with figures of all the species. London, Ray Society, pp. 104, 13 plates. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10599599
page(s): 71 [details] OpenAccess publication
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Euphysa Forbes, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117095 on 2025-05-20
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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van der Land, Jacob
2006-09-12 06:54:36Z
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Martinez, Olga
2009-09-18 10:26:35Z
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Schuchert, Peter
2013-11-27 12:14:28Z
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Schuchert, Peter
2018-12-26 12:33:30Z
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Schuchert, Peter

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Nomenclature

original description Forbes, E. (1848). A monograph of the British naked-eyed Medusæ : with figures of all the species. London, Ray Society, pp. 104, 13 plates. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10599599
page(s): 71 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Heterostephanus Allman, 1864) Allman, G.J., 1864d. Notes on the Hydroida. I. Note, supplemental and corrective, to a Synopsis of the genera and species of Tubularian and Campanularian Hydroids, published in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for May 1864, p. 350. II. The medusa of Zanclea implexa, Alder. Annals and Magazine of natural History (3) 14: 57-64., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/72305#71
page(s): 62 [details] 

original description (of Meiorhopalon von Salvini-Plawen, 1987) Salvini-Plawen, L. V. 1987. Mesopsammic Cnidaria from Plymouth (with systematic notes). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 67: 623-637.
page(s): 623 [details] 

original description (of Hypolytus Murbach, 1899) Murbach, L. (1899). Hydroids from Wood's Hole. Hypolytus peregrinus, a new unattached marine hydroid: Corinitis Agassizii and its medusa. <em>Q. Jl microsc. Sci., n. ser. 42.</em> 3: 341-360. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Rhizotricha Stechow, 1919) Stechow E. (1919a). Zur Kenntnis der Hydroidenfauna des Mittelmeeres, Amerikas und anderer Gebiete, nebst Angaben über einige Kirchenpauer'sche Typen von Plumulariden. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere.</em> 42(1): 1-172., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27079359
page(s): 9 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Heteractis Allman, 1864) Allman, G. J. 1864c. On the construction and limitation of genera among the Hydroida. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 13: 345-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22217607
page(s): 359 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Trichorhiza Russell, 1906) Russell, E.S., 1906. On Trichorhiza, a new hydroid genus. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 1906 1: 99-101.
page(s): 99 [details] 

original description (of Dahlgrenella Miles, 1937) Miles, S. S. 1937. A new genus of hydroid and its method of asexual reproduction. Biological bulletin of the Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole 72: 327-333, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 327 [details] 

original description (of Euphysomma Kramp, 1962) Kramp, P. L. (1962). Medusae of Vietnam. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København.</em> 124: 305-366.
page(s): 306 [details] 

basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

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

 
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LanguageName 
Japanese カタアシクラゲモドキ属  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Euphysa) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Heteractis) (from synonym Heteractis Allman, 1864)
To Genbank 
To ITIS
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Euphysa aurata medusae; Scotland, height about 1-2 mm
Euphysa aurata medusae; Scotland, height about 1-2 mm
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