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ERMS taxon details

Kephyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860)

387273 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:387273)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Cnidaria
  4. Medusozoa
  5. Hydrozoa
  6. Hydroidolina
  7. Siphonophorae
  8. Calycophorae
  9. Clausophyidae
  10. Kephyes
  11. Kephyes ovata
accepted
Species
Kephyes Pugh, 2006
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Diphyes ovata Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860) Keferstein, W., and Ehlers, E. (1860). Auszug aus den Beobachtungen über die Siphonophoren von Neapel und Messina angestellt in Winter 1859-60. <em>Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen.</em> No. 23: 254-262., available online at http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN668664029_1860
page(s): 260 [details] 
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Kephyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=387273 on 2026-09-02
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Kephyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860). Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=387273 on 2026-09-02
Date
action
by
2009-03-25 13:42:27Z
created
Mapstone, Gill
2013-12-27 13:53:10Z
changed
Schuchert, Peter

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original description (of Diphyes ovata Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860) Keferstein, W., and Ehlers, E. (1860). Auszug aus den Beobachtungen über die Siphonophoren von Neapel und Messina angestellt in Winter 1859-60. <em>Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen.</em> No. 23: 254-262., available online at http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN668664029_1860
page(s): 260 [details] 

original description (of Clausophyes massiliana Patriti, 1969) Patriti, G. (1969). <i>Clausophyes massiliana</i> sp. n. Nouvelle espèce de Siphonophore Calycophore bathypélagique des eaux méditerranéennes. <em>Tethys.</em> 1: 255-260.
page(s): 255 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (Bermuda) Bucklin, A., B.D. Ortman, R.M. Jennings, L.M. Nigro, C.J. Sweetman, N.J. Copley, T. Sutton & P.H. Wiebe. (2010). A 'Rosetta Stone' for metazoan zooplankton: DNA barcode analysis of species diversity of the Sargasso Sea (Northwest Atlantic Ocean). <em>In: Wiebe, P.H., S. Schnack-Schiel & S. Nishida (eds.). Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.</em> 57(24-26):2234-2247., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.09.025 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (Deepsea) Pugh, P. R. (2013). Confirmed records of Siphonophorae found below 500 m depth. (personal database). [details] 

basis of record Pugh, P. R. 2006. Reclassification of the clausophyid siphonophore Clausophyes ovata into the genus Kephyes gen. nov. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 86 (5): 997-1004., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s002531540601397x [details] 

ecology source Keferstein, W. and Ehlers, E. 1861. Zoologische Beiträge gesammelt in Winter 1859-1860 in Neapel und Messina, Leipzig. pp. viii + 112, 15 plates., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.4760 [details] OpenAccess publication

ecology source Mapstone, G. M. (2014). Global Diversity and Review of Siphonophorae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 9(2): e87737., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087737 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Diphyes ovata Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Clausophyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Kephyes ovata) 
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Clausophyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Diphyes ovata Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860)
To PESI (from synonym Clausophyes massiliana Patriti, 1969)
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Clausophyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860))
To PESI (from synonym Diphyes ovata Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 106629) 
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