Description
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of -23 meters (-75 feet).Standard Deviation = 82.530 based on 164 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Radiata
()
- (Linnaeus, 1758) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Infrakingdom:
Coelenterata
()
- Leuckart, 1847
- Phylum:
Cnidaria
()
- Hatschek, 1888
- Cnidarians
- Subphylum:
Medusozoa
()
- Petersen, 1979
- Class:
Scyphozoa
()
- Jellyfish
- Subclass:
Scyphomedusae
()
- Lankaster, 1877
- Order:
Semaeostomeae
()
- Order:
Semaeostomeae
(
- Subclass:
Scyphomedusae
(
- Class:
Scyphozoa
(
- Subphylum:
Medusozoa
(
- Phylum:
Cnidaria
(
- Infrakingdom:
Coelenterata
(
- Subkingdom:
Radiata
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Cyanea lamarcki Peron & Lesueur
- Cyanea lamarcki Peron & Lesueur 1810
- Cyanea lamarcki Peron and Lesueur, 1809
- Cyanea lamarcki Péron & Lesueur, 1809
- Cyanea lamarckii Péron & Lesueur, 1810
Similar Species
Members of the genus Cyanea
There are approximately 27 species in this genus:
C. angustifolia var. lanauensis · C. annasethe · C. annaskala · C. arctica · C. buitendijki · C. capillata (Lion's Mane) · C. capillata arctica · C. capillata fulva · C. carlsonii carlsonii · C. citrae · C. citrea · C. ferruginea · C. fulva · C. gibsonii gibsonii · C. lamarcki · C. lamarckii · C. mariana macrostegia · C. megacarpa pilosa · C. mjobergi · C. mjoebergi · C. muellerianthe · C. nozaki · C. nozakii · C. postelsi · C. purpurea · C. rosea · C. sp.
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 13, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
- MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 23, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 13, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Historical hyperbenthos data
- from the North Sea and some adjacent areas
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, MICROBIS database
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
- International Census of Marine Microbes, MICROBIS database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2567368
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16167013
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 678036
