WoRMS taxon details

Lensia asymmetrica Stepanjants, 1970

231570  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231570)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Medusozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hydrozoa (Class)
  6. Hydroidolina (Subclass)
  7. Siphonophorae (Order)
  8. Calycophorae (Suborder)
  9. Diphyidae (Family)
  10. Diphyinae (Subfamily)
  11. Lensia (Genus)
  12. Lensia asymmetrica (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Stepanjants, S. D. 1970. Siphonophora of the southern part of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and adjacent marine areas. Tr. Inst. Okeanol. Akad. Nauk SSSR 86: 234-249 (translated from Russian by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1972).
page(s): 243, fig. 11 [details] 
Distribution See also Pugh & Pages 1997, Pagès et al’06  
Distribution See also Pugh & Pages 1997, Pagès et al’06 [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Lensia asymmetrica Stepanjants, 1970. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231570 on 2025-07-11
Date
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2006-05-29 14:23:10Z
created
Charbonneau, Danny
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
changed
van der Land, Jacob
2009-03-25 13:42:27Z
checked
Mapstone, Gill
2009-11-18 09:20:11Z
changed
Mapstone, Gill
2013-12-29 12:42:38Z
changed
Schuchert, Peter

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Nomenclature

original description Stepanjants, S. D. 1970. Siphonophora of the southern part of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and adjacent marine areas. Tr. Inst. Okeanol. Akad. Nauk SSSR 86: 234-249 (translated from Russian by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1972).
page(s): 243, fig. 11 [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription Pugh, P. R., and Pagès, F. 1997. A re-description of Lensia asymmetrica Stepanjants, 1970 (Siphonophorae, Diphyidae). Sci. Mar. 61 2: 153-161.
page(s): 153, figs 1-6 [details] 

Ecology

ecology source Stepanjants, S. D. 1970. Siphonophora of the southern part of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and adjacent marine areas. Tr. Inst. Okeanol. Akad. Nauk SSSR 86: 234-249 (translated from Russian by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1972). [details] 

Other

context source (Deepsea) Pugh, P. R. (2013). Confirmed records of Siphonophorae found below 500 m depth. (personal database). [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution See also Pugh & Pages 1997, Pagès et al’06 [details]

Unreviewed
Biology rare [details]

Habitat bathypelagic [details]
    Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lensia asymmetrica) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
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