MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Aegina citrea Eschscholtz, 1829

WoRMS taxon details

Aegina citrea Eschscholtz, 1829

? Aegina citrea

AphiaID

117263 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117263)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Aegina Eschscholtz, 1829

Original name

Aegina citrea Eschscholtz, 1829

Synonymised names

Aegina alternans Bigelow, 1909 · unaccepted (synonym)

Aegina eschscholtzii Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)

Aegina lactea Vanhöffen, 1908 · unaccepted (synonym)

Cunarcha aeginoides Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): 113, pl. 11. fig 4 [details]

Type data

Note 34°N 159°E, North Pacific Ocean

Type locality 34°N 159°E, North Pacific Ocean [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution cosmopolitan

Distribution cosmopolitan [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Aegina citrea Eschscholtz, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117263 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2016-05-30 09:10:36Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): 113, pl. 11. fig 4 [details]

original description (of Cunarcha aeginoides 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): 315 [details]

original description (of Aegina eschscholtzii 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): 339 [details]

original description (of Aegina lactea Vanhöffen, 1908) Vanhöffen, E., 1908. Die Narcomedusen. Wiss. Erg. dt. Tiefsee-Exped. Valdivia 19 : 41-74.
page(s): 50, pl. 1 fig. 3 [details]

original description (of Aegina alternans Bigelow, 1909) Bigelow, H. B. (1909a). The Medusae. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross" from October, 1904, to March, 1905. XVI. Memoirs of the Museum of comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 37: 1-243, plates 1-48., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/30084
page(s): 74, pl. 17 fig. 1 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

context source (Bermuda) Bigelow, H. B. (1938). Plankton of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions VIII. Medusae taken during the years 1929 and 1930. Zoologica (New York), 23(5): 99-189 [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]

additional source Navas-Pereira, D. & Vannucci, M. (1991). The Hydromedusae and water masses of the Indian Ocean. Bolm Inst. Oceanogr. 39(1): 25-60. [details]

additional source Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V.; Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (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., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors

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redescription Lindsay, D. J.; Grossmann, M. M.; Bentlage, B.; Collins, A. G.; Minemizu, R.; Hopcroft, R. R.; Miyake, H.; Hidaka-Umetsu, M.; Nishikawa, J. (2017). The perils of online biogeographic databases: a case study with the ‘monospecific' genus Aegina (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Narcomedusae). Marine Biology Research. 13(5): 494-512., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2016.1268261
page(s): 499, figs 3-5 [details]