WoRMS taxon details
Apolemia uvaria (Lesueur, 1815)
135497 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135497)
accepted
Species
Agalma punctata Vogt, 1854 · unaccepted (synonym)
Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, terrestrial
(of Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815) Lesueur, C. A., 1815. Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Histoire naturelle. Histoire générale et particulière de tous les animaux qui composent la famille des méduses, et de quelques autres radiares molasses. Paris. pp. 1-7, pls 1-13 + 3 unnumbered (Brit. Mus. Catal. 455 e 21 - the only copy in London; see Mapstone 2003 for further details). [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Apolemia uvaria (Lesueur, 1815). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135497 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Agalma punctata Vogt, 1854) Vogt, C. 1854. Recherches sur les animaux inferieures de la Mediterranée. 1. Sur les Siphonophores de la Mer de Nice. Mémoires de l'Institut National Genevois 1: 1 - 164, 21 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11825990
page(s): 83 [details]
original description (of Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815) Lesueur, C. A., 1815. Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Histoire naturelle. Histoire générale et particulière de tous les animaux qui composent la famille des méduses, et de quelques autres radiares molasses. Paris. pp. 1-7, pls 1-13 + 3 unnumbered (Brit. Mus. Catal. 455 e 21 - the only copy in London; see Mapstone 2003 for further details). [details]
basis of record Kirkpatrick, P.A.; Pugh, P.R. (1984). Siphonophores and velellids: keys and notes for the identification of the species. <i>Synopses of the British fauna (new series)</i>, 29. E.J. Brill/W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07470-8. vi, 154 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 28m fig. 6 [details]
page(s): 83 [details]
original description (of Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815) Lesueur, C. A., 1815. Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes. Histoire naturelle. Histoire générale et particulière de tous les animaux qui composent la famille des méduses, et de quelques autres radiares molasses. Paris. pp. 1-7, pls 1-13 + 3 unnumbered (Brit. Mus. Catal. 455 e 21 - the only copy in London; see Mapstone 2003 for further details). [details]
basis of record Kirkpatrick, P.A.; Pugh, P.R. (1984). Siphonophores and velellids: keys and notes for the identification of the species. <i>Synopses of the British fauna (new series)</i>, 29. E.J. Brill/W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07470-8. vi, 154 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 28m fig. 6 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230.
page(s): p. 45, figs. 13-17, Plate VIII [details]
redescription Mapstone, G. M. 2003. Redescriptions of two physonect siphonophores, Apolemia uvaria (Lesueur, 1815) and Tottonia contorta Margulis, 1976, with comments on a third species Ramosia vitiazi Stepanjants, 1967 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Apolemiidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 1 2: 181-212. [details]
redescription Siebert, S.; Pugh, P.R.; Haddock, S.H.D.; Dunn, C.W. (2013). Re-evaluation of characters in Apolemiidae (Siphonophora), with description of two new species from Monterey Bay, California. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3702 (3): 201-232., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3702.3.1
page(s): 222, fig. 18 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): p. 45, figs. 13-17, Plate VIII [details]
redescription Mapstone, G. M. 2003. Redescriptions of two physonect siphonophores, Apolemia uvaria (Lesueur, 1815) and Tottonia contorta Margulis, 1976, with comments on a third species Ramosia vitiazi Stepanjants, 1967 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Apolemiidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 1 2: 181-212. [details]
redescription Siebert, S.; Pugh, P.R.; Haddock, S.H.D.; Dunn, C.W. (2013). Re-evaluation of characters in Apolemiidae (Siphonophora), with description of two new species from Monterey Bay, California. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3702 (3): 201-232., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3702.3.1
page(s): 222, fig. 18 [details] Available for editors
[request]Ecology
ecology source
Hiscock, K, Mapstone, G.M., Conway, D.V.P. and Halliday, N. 2010. Occurrence of the physonect siphonophore Apolemia uvaria off Plymouth and in south-west England. Marine Biodiversity Records 3: 1-4., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755267210000205 [details]
Other
additional source
Costello, M.J., C. Emblow & R. White (EdS.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France.</em> 463 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Habitat epipelagic and deeper [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | string jelly | [details] |
| German | Perlenketten-Qualle | [details] |
| Japanese | ケムシクラゲ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) (from synonym Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (90 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Apolemia uvaria)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) (from synonym Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (90 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Apolemia uvaria)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Stephanomia uvaria Lesueur, 1815)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record)
To ITIS
