Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Bryozoa > Class Gymnolaemata > Order Ctenostomatida > Family Alcyonidiidae > Genus Alcyonidium

Alcyonidium parasiticum (Fleming, 1828)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Alcyonidium*	J.V.F.Lamouroux, 1813	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: omklamrende lædermosdyr sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: overwoekerend mosdiertje; woekerende zeevinger

Literature

original description	Fleming, J. 1828. A History of British Animals, Exhibiting the Descriptive Characters and Systematical Arrangement of the Genera and Species of Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the Indigenous, Extirpated, and Extinct Kinds, together with Periodical and Occasional Visitants. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh: i-xxiii, 1-565.
basis of record	Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, 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. 325-333
additional source	Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	De Blauwe, H. (2009). Mosdiertjes van de Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee. Determinatiewerk voor België en Nederland. Uitgave Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, Oostende: 464pp.
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	ITIS database
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.
additional source	De Blauwe, H., F. Kerckhof & J.S. Houziaux (2006). Een opmerkelijke diversiteit aan Bryozoa (mosdiertjes) op de Hinderbanken: een tussentijds verslag. De Strandvlo 26(4): 125-134.
additional source	Loppens, K. (1906). Bryozoaires marins et fluviatiles de la Belgique. Annales de la Société Royale Zoologique et Malacologique de Belgique 41: 286-321.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Bryozoa Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Gordon, D. (2014). Alcyonidium parasiticum (Fleming, 1828). In: Bock, P.; Gordon, D. (2014) World List of Bryozoa. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:111604