Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Leptothecata > Family Aequoreidae > Genus Aequorea

Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

AequoreaPéron & Lesueur, 1810accepted genus name

Species group names

Aequorea aequorea (Forsskål, 1775) synonym; nom. inval.

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: many-ribbed jellyfish

Literature

original description

Péron, F., & Lesueur, C. A. 1810b. Tableau des caractères génériques et spécifiques de toutes les espèces de méduses connues jusqu'à ce jour. Annales du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris 14: 325-366.

basis of record

van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, 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. 112-120

additional source

Cairns, S.D.; Gershwin, L.; Brook, F.J.; Pugh, P.; Dawson, E.W.; Ocaña O.V.; Vervoort, W.; Williams, G.; Watson, J.E.; Opresko, D.M.; Schuchert, P.; Hine, P.M.; Gordon, D.P.; Campbell, H.J.; Wright, A.J.; Sánchez, J.A.; Fautin, D.G. (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.

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.

redescription

Cornelius, P.F.S. (1995). North-West European thecate hydroids and their Medusae: part 1 introduction, Laodiceidae to Haleciidae: keys and notes for identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 50. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-254-4. vii, 347 pp.

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Schuchert, P. (2014). Aequorea forskalea Péron & Lesueur, 1810. In: Schuchert, P. (2014) World Hydrozoa database. 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:117270

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

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Last modified

2012-07-10 by Peter Schuchert

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