Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Siphonophorae > Suborder Calycophorae > Family Prayidae > Subfamily Amphicaryoninae

Amphicaryon Chun, 1888

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Mitrophyes Haeckel, 1888 synonym

Children

Amphicaryon acaule Chun, 1888
Amphicaryon ernesti Totton, 1954
Amphicaryon peltifera (Haeckel, 1888)

Literature

original description

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).

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Citation

Schuchert, P.; Mapstone, G. (2014). Amphicaryon Chun, 1888. 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:135370

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2013-12-22 by Peter Schuchert

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