Interesting Facts
[ Back to top ]
Description
[ Back to top ]
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 87 meters (287 feet).[1]
Biome: Coastal.
Taxonomy
[ Back to top ]
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Annelida
()
- Lamarck, 1809
- Segmented Worms
- Order:
Phyllodocida
()
- Suborder:
Aphroditiformia
()
- Superfamily:
Aphroditoidea
()
- Malmgren, 1867
- Family:
Polynoidae
()
- Kinberg, 1856
- Subfamily:
Lepidonotinae
()
- Genus:
Alentia
()
- Malmgren, 1865
- Specific name:
gelatinosa
- (Sars, 1835)
- Scientific name: - Alentia gelatinosa (Sars, 1835)
- Specific name:
gelatinosa
- (Sars, 1835)
- Genus:
Alentia
(
- Subfamily:
Lepidonotinae
(
- Family:
Polynoidae
(
- Superfamily:
Aphroditoidea
(
- Suborder:
Aphroditiformia
(
- Order:
Phyllodocida
(
- Phylum:
Annelida
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Halosydna Gelatinosa • Polynoe gelatinosa Sars
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Sars M.
Polypernes, Acalephernes, Radiaternes,
Annelidernes og Molluskernes Classer Thorstein Hallagers Forlag,
Bergen, 1835.
Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996
Similar Species
[ Back to top ]
Members of the genus Alentia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 0 species and subspecies in this genus:
More Info
[ Back to top ]
- Search for Pictures: images.google.com
- Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
- Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
[ Back to top ]
- A monograph of the British marine annelids. 1 1900 London, The Ray society, 1873/1900-1922/23. url p. 385.
- Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 135.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 122, p. 122, p. 124, p. 91, article start, page 91, p. 93, p. 94, p. 94.
- The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 319, p. 319.
- The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url p. 187.
- The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. Copenhagen: H. Hagerup, 1899-1928. url p. 38, p. 46.
- The Scientific proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society. Dublin: The Society, 1877-[1957] url .
- Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 25 1886 London: [The Society], 1791-1875. url p. 377.
Notes
[ Back to top ]
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 17, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 11, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
- UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine survey data
- held by MarLIN.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2550741
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-64788
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2324580
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 64788
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 502706
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 107.360 based on 773 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
