MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Forskalia contorta (Milne Edwards, 1841)

WoRMS taxon details

Forskalia contorta (Milne Edwards, 1841)

AphiaID

152179 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152179)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Forskalia Kölliker, 1853

Original name

Stephanomia contorta Milne Edwards, 1841

Synonymised names

Apolemia edwardsii Lesson, 1843 · unaccepted

Forskalia leuckarti Bedot, 1893 · unaccepted

Stephanomia contorta Milne Edwards, 1841 · unaccepted

Stephanomia excisa Leuckart, 1853 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Stephanomia contorta Milne Edwards, 1841) Milne Edwards, H. (1841). Sur la structure et les fonctions de quelques zoophytes, mollusques et crustacés des côtes de la France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. (2)16: 193-232., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35730650
page(s): 217-229, pls 7-9 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Forskalia contorta (Milne Edwards, 1841). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152179 on 2025-04-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-08 08:00:57Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2006-01-20 13:52:22Z

checked

Mapstone, Gill

2012-11-22 10:06:54Z

changed

Mapstone, Gill

2013-12-28 13:28:42Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description (of Forskalia leuckarti Bedot, 1893) Bedot, M. 1893. Revision de la famille des Forskaliidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 1, 231-254. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10087960
page(s): 234 [details]

original description (of Stephanomia contorta Milne Edwards, 1841) Milne Edwards, H. (1841). Sur la structure et les fonctions de quelques zoophytes, mollusques et crustacés des côtes de la France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. (2)16: 193-232., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35730650
page(s): 217-229, pls 7-9 [details]

original description (of Stephanomia excisa Leuckart, 1853) Leuckart, R., 1853. Zoologische Untersuchungen. I. Siphonophoren. J. Ricker'sche Buchhandlung, Gießen., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11811224
page(s): 3 [details]

original description (of Apolemia edwardsii Lesson, 1843) Lesson, R. P. 1843. Histoire naturelle des zoophytes. Acalèphes. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. pp. i-vii, 1-596, plus atlas of 12 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3803187
page(s): 519 [details]

basis of record Leloup, E. (1935). Les siphonophores de la rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer (Alpes Maritimes, France) [Siphonophores of the Rade of Villefranche-sur-Mer (Maritime Alps, France)]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 11(31): 1-12 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Pugh, P. R. (2003). A revision of the family Forskaliidae (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Journal of Natural History. 37: 1281-1327.
page(s): 1291-1299, figs 9-15 [details]

Ecology

ecology source Pugh, P. R. (2003). A revision of the family Forskaliidae (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Journal of Natural History. 37: 1281-1327. [details]

ecology source Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230. [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Pugh, P. R. (2013). Confirmed records of Siphonophorae found below 500 m depth. (personal database). [details]

context source (Bermuda) Bucklin, A., B.D. Ortman, R.M. Jennings, L.M. Nigro, C.J. Sweetman, N.J. Copley, T. Sutton & P.H. Wiebe. (2010). A 'Rosetta Stone' for metazoan zooplankton: DNA barcode analysis of species diversity of the Sargasso Sea (Northwest Atlantic Ocean). In: Wiebe, P.H., S. Schnack-Schiel & S. Nishida (eds.). Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 57(24-26):2234-2247. [details] Available for editors