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Rathkea octopunctata (M.Sars, 1835)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
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. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.46856

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Cnidaria
class
Hydrozoa
order
Anthoathecata
family
Rathkeidae
genus
Rathkea
species
Rathkea octopunctata

Name

Synonyms
Cytaeis octopunctata M.Sars, 1835
Lizzia grata A.Agassiz, 1862
Lizzia octopunctata (M.Sars, 1835)
Lizzia shimiko Kishinouye, 1910
Margellium gratum (A.Agassiz, 1862)
Margellium octopunctatum (M.Sars, 1835)
Oceania blumenbachii Rathke, 1835
Oceania spec Rathke, 1835
Rathkea blumenbachii (Rathke, 1835)
Rathkea octopunctata var. grata (A.Agassiz, 1862)
Homonyms
Rathkea octopunctata (M.Sars, 1835)
Common names
Ratkea in Polish
oktettmedusa in Swedish
シミコクラゲ in Japanese
シミコクラゲ in Japanese
팔방라드케해파리 in Korean
oktettmedusa in Swedish
シミコクラゲ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

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  2. Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp.
  3. 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. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101.
  4. Cairns, Stephen D., Dale R. Calder, Anita Brinckmann-Voss, Clovis B. Castro, Daphne G. Fautin,..., 2002: Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora, Second Edition, 2002. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 28. xi + 115.
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  6. Calder (2012) On a collection of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Hydroidolina) from the west coast of Sweden, with a checklist of species from the region
  7. Calder, D. (2003). Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy.
  8. Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates.
  9. Hansson, Hans G. (2008) "MESS - Marina Evertebrater från Södra Skandinavien (Marine Invertebrates from South Scandinavia) - a teaching aid for students. Marina syd-skandinaviska ""evertebrater"", ett naturhistoriskt urval."
  10. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  11. Kramp, P. L., 1961: Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 40. 1-469.
  12. Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p.
  13. Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp.
  14. Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp.
  15. Schuchert P. (1996). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Athecate hydroids and their medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 106 : 1-159.
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  17. Schuchert, P. 2012. North-West European Athecate Hydroids and their Medusae. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 59. The Linnean Society of London, London, pp. i-viii, 1-364.
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  19. WoRMS Editorial Board (2015) WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species
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