MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Ceratocymba Chun, 1888

WoRMS taxon details

Ceratocymba Chun, 1888

AphiaID

135354 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135354)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Ceratocymba spectabilis Chun, 1888 accepted as Ceratocymba sagittata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Abylinae L. Agassiz, 1862

Synonymised names

Cymba Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 · unaccepted (invalid junior homonym of Cymba...)

invalid junior homonym of Cymba Sowerby, 1826 [Mollusca]

Diphyabyla Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908 · unaccepted

Nacella Blainville, 1830 · unaccepted (invalid junior homonym of Nacella...)

invalid junior homonym of Nacella Schumacher, 1817 [Mollusca]

Nacelle Blainville, 1830 · unaccepted (French version of Cymba)

Pseudocymba Sears, 1953 · unaccepted (Based on aberrant pathological...)

Based on aberrant pathological anterior nectophores with either two few facets or some missing or incomplete ridges; they could perhaps have come from Ceratocymba specimens, but such nectophores have never been found again

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Species Ceratocymba dentata (Bigelow, 1918)
Species Ceratocymba leuckartii (Huxley, 1859)
Species Ceratocymba sagittata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827)
Species Ceratocymba asymmetrica Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908 accepted as Ceratocymba leuckartii (Huxley, 1859) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Ceratocymba indica Daniel, 1971 accepted as Ceratocymba sagittata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827) (synonym)
Species Ceratocymba intermedia Sears, 1953 accepted as Ceratocymba sagittata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Ceratocymba spectabilis Chun, 1888 accepted as Ceratocymba sagittata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

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)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29368183
page(s): 1160 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Ceratocymba Chun, 1888. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135354 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Mapstone, Gill

2006-01-27 08:54:21Z

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Mapstone, Gill

2012-10-22 10:49:30Z

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Mapstone, Gill

2013-12-29 12:42:38Z

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Schuchert, Peter

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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)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29368183
page(s): 1160 [details]

original description (of Cymba Quoy & Gaimard, 1827) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1827). Observations zoologiques faites à bord de l'Astrolabe, en mai 1826, dans le Détroit de Gibraltar. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 10: 5-21, 172-193, 225-239; pls 1-2, 4-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6008318
page(s): 16 [details]

original description (of Nacelle Blainville, 1830) de Blainville, H. M. (1830). Zoophytes. In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Edited by F. G. Levrault. Tome 60. Paris, Le Normat. Pp. 548, pls. 68. Paris, 1830. 60 : 1-546., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25318344
page(s): 119 [details]

original description (of Diphyabyla Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908) Lens, A. D. and van Riemsdijk, T. 1908. The Siphonophora of the “Siboga” Expedition. Siboga Exped. 9: 1-130, 24 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16022020
page(s): 36 [details]

original description (of Pseudocymba Sears, 1953) Sears, M. (1953). Notes on siphonophores. 2. A revision of the Abylinae. Bulletin of the Museum of comparative Zoölogy of Harvard College. 109: 1-119., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3886008
page(s): 72 [details]

original description (of Nacella Blainville, 1830) Blainville, H.M.D. de. (1830). Zoophytes. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles etc. vol. 60. Strasbourg & Paris, F.G. Levrault and Le Normant., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25318344
page(s): vol. 60, page 120 [details]

additional source Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 1-868.
page(s): 494 [details]

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Introduced: alien

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Language	Name
Japanese	シカクハコクラゲ属	[details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ceratocymba)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nacella) (from synonym Nacella Blainville, 1830)
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