WoRMS taxon details
Merga Hartlaub, 1914
117184 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117184)
accepted
Genus
Pandea violacea Agassiz & Mayer, 1899 accepted as Merga violacea (Agassiz & Mayer, 1899) (type by original designation)
Janiopsis Bouillon, 1980 · unaccepted (subjective synonym and...)
subjective synonym and preoccupied by Janiopsis Rovereto, 1899 [Gastropoda, Buccinidae; fossil]
Mergintha Hartlaub, 1914 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tiarula Hartlaub, 1914 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Merga apicirubellus Xu, Huang, Lin, Guo & Wang, 2014
- Species Merga apicispottis (Xu, Huang & Lin, 2009)
- Species Merga brevispura (Xu, Huang & Guo, 2009)
- Species Merga bulbosa Bouillon, 1980
- Species Merga costata (Bouillon, 1980)
- Species Merga crassocanalis Huang, Xu & Huang, 2019
- Species Merga galleri Brinckmann, 1962
- Species Merga longicosta Xu, Huang & Wang, 2020
- Species Merga macrobulbosa Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991
- Species Merga minuta (Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991)
- Species Merga nanhaiensis Xu, Huang & Guo, 2018
- Species Merga nanshaensis (Xu, Huang & Lin, 2009)
- Species Merga reesi Russell, 1956
- Species Merga tergestina (Neppi & Stiasny, 1912)
- Species Merga tregoubovii Picard, 1960
- Species Merga treubeli Schuchert, 1996
- Species Merga unguliformis (Xu, Huang & Lin, 2009)
- Species Merga violacea (Agassiz & Mayer, 1899)
- Species Merga macrobulbosa (Xu, Huang & Guo, 2009) accepted as Merga apicirubellus Xu, Huang, Lin, Guo & Wang, 2014 (secondary homonym of Merga macrobulbosa Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991)
- Species Merga minutum (Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991) accepted as Merga minuta (Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991) (incorrect gender suffix)
- Species Merga rubra Kramp, 1957 accepted as Amphinema rubrum (Kramp, 1957)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hartlaub C. (1914). Craspedote Medusen. Teil 1, Lieferung 3, Tiaridae. Nordisches Plankton. Vol. 6: 237-363.
page(s): 249 [details]
page(s): 249 [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Merga Hartlaub, 1914. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117184 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Hartlaub C. (1914). Craspedote Medusen. Teil 1, Lieferung 3, Tiaridae. Nordisches Plankton. Vol. 6: 237-363.
page(s): 249 [details]
original description (of Janiopsis Bouillon, 1980) Bouillon, J. 1980. Hydromeduses de la Mer de Bismarck. (Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée). Partie 3: Anthomedusae - Filifera (Hydrozoa - Cnidaria). Cahiers de Biologie Marine 21: 307-344.
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original description (of Tiarula Hartlaub, 1914) Hartlaub C. (1914). Craspedote Medusen. Teil 1, Lieferung 3, Tiaridae. Nordisches Plankton. Vol. 6: 237-363.
page(s): 253 [details]
original description (of Mergintha Hartlaub, 1914) Hartlaub C. (1914). Craspedote Medusen. Teil 1, Lieferung 3, Tiaridae. Nordisches Plankton. Vol. 6: 237-363.
page(s): 250 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 249 [details]
original description (of Janiopsis Bouillon, 1980) Bouillon, J. 1980. Hydromeduses de la Mer de Bismarck. (Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée). Partie 3: Anthomedusae - Filifera (Hydrozoa - Cnidaria). Cahiers de Biologie Marine 21: 307-344.
page(s): 328 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Tiarula Hartlaub, 1914) Hartlaub C. (1914). Craspedote Medusen. Teil 1, Lieferung 3, Tiaridae. Nordisches Plankton. Vol. 6: 237-363.
page(s): 253 [details]
original description (of Mergintha Hartlaub, 1914) Hartlaub C. (1914). Craspedote Medusen. Teil 1, Lieferung 3, Tiaridae. Nordisches Plankton. Vol. 6: 237-363.
page(s): 250 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Schuchert, P. (2007). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. Revue suisse de Zoologie. 114: 195-396. [details] 
Other
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Du F, Wang L, Xu Zh, Huang J, Guo D. (2018). Taxonomic notes on Anthomedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Hydroidomedusa) from the south-central South China Sea, with a new genus and four new species. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 37(10): 112–118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-018-1310-5
page(s): 116; note: key to species [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Du F, Wang L, Xu Zh, Huang J, Guo D. (2018). Taxonomic notes on Anthomedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Hydroidomedusa) from the south-central South China Sea, with a new genus and four new species. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 37(10): 112–118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-018-1310-5
page(s): 116; note: key to species [details] Available for editors
[request]
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