MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Gonionemus A. Agassiz, 1862

WoRMS taxon details

Gonionemus A. Agassiz, 1862

Gonionemus vertens

AphiaID

117171 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117171)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Olindiidae Haeckel, 1879

Original name

Gonionemus A. Agassiz, 1862

Synonymised names

Gonynema Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (invalid spelling variant)

Haleremita Schaudinn, 1894 · unaccepted

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Species Gonionemus agilis Watson & Govindarajan, 2017
Species Gonionemus hamatus Kramp, 1965
Species Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862
Species Gonionemus agassizii Murbach & Shearer, 1902 accepted as Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862 (synonym)
Species Gonionemus chekiangensis Ling, 1937 accepted as Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862 (synonym)
Species Gonionemus depressum Goto, 1903 accepted as Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862 (synonym)
Species Gonionemus hornelli Browne, 1905 accepted as Scolionema suvaense (Agassiz & Mayer, 1899) (synonym)
Species Gonionemus murbachi Mayer, 1901 accepted as Gonionemus murbachii Mayer, 1901 accepted as Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862 (incorrect spelling variant)
Species Gonionemus murbachii Mayer, 1901 accepted as Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862 (synonym)
Species Gonionemus oshoro Uchida, 1929 accepted as Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862 (synonym)
Species Gonionemus pelagicus Bigelow, 1904 accepted as Scolionema suvaense (Agassiz & Mayer, 1899) (synonym)
Species Gonionemus suvaensis Agassiz & Mayer, 1899 accepted as Scolionema suvaense (Agassiz & Mayer, 1899) (basionym)
Species Gonionemus vindobonensis Joseph, 1918 accepted as Gonionemus vertens A. Agassiz, 1862 (synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Agassiz, L. (1862). Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. Little Brown, Boston. 4: 1-380, pls 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16068829
page(s): 350 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Gonionemus A. Agassiz, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117171 on 2024-11-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2005-04-06 15:03:24Z

changed

Cuvelier, Daphne

2011-01-21 12:55:21Z

checked

Schuchert, Peter

2012-07-20 12:51:30Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2015-04-14 11:57:11Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2016-07-18 07:12:44Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

Licensing

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original description Agassiz, L. (1862). Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. Little Brown, Boston. 4: 1-380, pls 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16068829
page(s): 350 [details]

original description (of Haleremita Schaudinn, 1894) Schaudinn F. (1894). Über Haleremita cumulans n. g. n. sp., ein neuen marinen Hydroidpolypen. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1894(9): 226-234., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43581336
page(s): 226 [details]

original description (of Gonynema Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena. 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 146 [details]

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Diagnosis Olindiidae medusae with slight peduncle or peduncle absent; 4 simple radial canals; no centripetal canals; folded gonads on radial canals only; evenly distributed marginal tentacles all of one kind, with adhesion organs; numerous statocysts enclosed in mesoglea.
Hydroid: small, solitary, conical, devoid of hydrorhiza, with conspicuous conical hypostome and a circlet of 4-6 long tentacles; medusa buds, frustules, cysts formed by intense asexual budding.
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