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Hydrozoa taxon details

Aeginopsis laurentii Brandt, 1838

117265  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117265)

accepted
Species
Aeginopsis horensis Brandt, 1835 · unaccepted (not in use)
Aeginopsis mertensii Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
Solmundus glacialis Grönberg, 1898 · unaccepted (possible synonym)
marine, terrestrial
Brandt, J. F. (1838a). Ausführliche Beschreibung der von C. H. Mertens auf seiner Weltumsegelung beobachteten Schwimmquallen. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. (6)2: 237-412., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29058927
page(s): 363, pl. 6 figs 1-6 [details] 
Note Saint Lawrence Bay, Chukotka, Bering Sea  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Saint Lawrence Bay, Chukotka, Bering Sea [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Aeginopsis laurentii Brandt, 1838. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php/api-docs/css/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117265 on 2025-05-31
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original description Brandt, J. F. (1838a). Ausführliche Beschreibung der von C. H. Mertens auf seiner Weltumsegelung beobachteten Schwimmquallen. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. (6)2: 237-412., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29058927
page(s): 363, pl. 6 figs 1-6 [details] 

original description (of Aeginopsis horensis Brandt, 1835) Brandt, J. F. (1834-1835). Prodromus descriptionis animalium ab H. Mertensio observatorum : fascic. I. Polypos, Acalephas Discophoras et Siphonophoras, nec non Echinodermata continens. Recueil des Actes de la Séance Publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg. 1834: 201-275., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10765514
page(s): 222 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Aeginopsis mertensii 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): 343 [details] 

original description (of Solmundus glacialis Grönberg, 1898) Grönberg, G. 1898. Die Hydroidmedusen des arktischen Gebiets. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 11: 451-468, pl. 27.
page(s): 466, pl. 27 figs 7-8 [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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 Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 
 
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Diagnosis Aeginopsis medusa up to 25 mm wide, hemispherical or somewhat conical, apex thick, lateral walls very thin. Stomach broad, lenticular; 16 rectangular stomach pouches (eight primary pouches deeply cleft). 4 large primary tentacles issuing at a very high level; 4 perradial and 4 interradial peronia. No peripheral canal system; 2-3 statocysts in each octant. [details]

Habitat surface to deep water [details]

Type locality Saint Lawrence Bay, Chukotka, Bering Sea [details]
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