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Turritopsis nutricula McCrady, 1857

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
McCrady, J.,. (1857). Description of Oceania (Turritopsis) nutricula nov. spec. and the embryological history of a singular medusan larva, found in the cavity of its bell. Proc. Elliott Soc. nat. Hist. 1 : 55-90. https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=34840

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Cnidaria
class
Hydrozoa
order
Anthoathecata
family
Oceaniidae
genus
Turritopsis
species
Turritopsis nutricula

Name

Synonyms
Corydendrium nutricula (McCrady, 1857)
Modeeria multitentaculata Fewkes, 1881
Homonyms
Turritopsis nutricula McCrady, 1857
Common names
ベニクラゲ in Japanese
ベニクラゲ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

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  2. Brooks W.K. (1886a). The life history of the Hydromedusae. A discussion of the origin of the medusae and the significance of metagenesis. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 111: 359-430, plates 27-44.
  3. Brooks, W. K.; Rittenhouse, S. (1907). On Turritopsis nutricula (McCrady). <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 429-460, pls 30-35. 10.5962/bhl.title.2009
  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, D. R. and S. D. Cairns. 2009. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 381–394 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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  10. 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.
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  12. Piraino, S., F. Boero, B. Aeschbach & V. Schmid, 1996. Reversing the life cycle: medusae trasforming into polyps and cell transdifferentiation in Turritopsis nutricula (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Biol. Bull. 190 3: 302-312.
  13. Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp.
  14. Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35.
  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.
  16. Schuchert P.; Collins R. (2021). Hydromedusae observed during night dives in the Gulf Stream. <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 128(2): 237-356. 10.35929/rsz.0049
  17. Schuchert, P. (2004). Revision of the European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): families Oceanidae and Pachycordylidae. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 111 2: 315-369.
  18. 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
  19. Watson, J. E. (2024). The marine hydroids of south-eastern Australia (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). <em>Museum Victoria Science Reports.</em> 22: 1-121. 10.24199/j.mvsr.2024.22
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