Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Siphonophorae > Suborder Calycophorae > Family Diphyidae > Subfamily Diphyinae > Genus Muggiaea

Muggiaea atlantica Cunningham, 1892

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

MuggiaeaBusch, 1851accepted genus name

Literature

original description

Cunningham, J. T. 1892. On a species of siphonophore observed at Plymouth. - Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U. K. 2: 212-215.

basis of record

Mapstone, G. M. 2001. Siphonophora, 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. 120-122

additional source

Russell, F. S. 1938a. On the development of Muggiaea atlantica Cunningham. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 22 (2): 441-446.

additional source

Mapstone, G. M. 2009. Siphonophora (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of Canadian Pacific waters. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 302 p

additional source

Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. Pp. 868.

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

Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453

additional source

Pagès, F. & J.M. Gili, 1992. Siphonophores (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the Benguela Current (southeastern Atlantic). In: F. Pagès; J.-M. Gili & J. Bouillon, eds, Planktonic Cnidarians of the Benguela Current. Scientia Marina 56 suppl. 1: 65-112.

additional source

Leloup, E. (1933). Contributions à l'étude de la faune belge: 3. Sur la présence du siphonophore calycophoride Galetta australis (Lesueur) dans la zone littorale belge [Contribution to the study of the Belgian fauna: 3. On the presence of the calycophoride siphonophore Galetta australis (Lesueur) in the Belgian littoral zone]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 9(38): 1-7

ecology source

Mackie, G. O., Pugh, P.R., and Purcell, J. E. 1987. Siphonophore Biology. In Adv. Mar. Biol. Edited by J. H. Blaxter and A. J. Southward. 24: 97-262.

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications)
Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
GenBank (16 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Mapstone, G. (2014). Muggiaea atlantica Cunningham, 1892. 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:135441

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2013-12-22 by Peter Schuchert

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