Description
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Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 23 meters (74 feet).Standard Deviation = 61.560 based on 4 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
()
- (Goldfuss, 1818) R. Owen, 1858
- Protozoa
- Phylum:
Choanozoa
()
- Class:
Acanthoecidae
()
- Order:
Acanthoecida
()
- Family:
Choanoflagellatea
()
- Genus:
Acanthocorbis
()
- Specific descriptor:
asymmetrica
- Scientific name: - Acanthocorbis asymmetrica
- Specific descriptor:
asymmetrica
- Genus:
Acanthocorbis
(
- Family:
Choanoflagellatea
(
- Order:
Acanthoecida
(
- Class:
Acanthoecidae
(
- Phylum:
Choanozoa
(
- Kingdom:
Protozoa
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Acanthocorbis asymmetrica "(Thomsen, 1979) Hara and Takahashi 1984"
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Acanthocorbis
There are approximately 6 species in this genus:
A. apoda · A. asymmetrica · A. campanula · A. haurakiana · A. tintinnabulum · A. unguiculata
More Info
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Notes
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Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 18, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed August 2, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, MICROBIS database
- International Census of Marine Microbes, MICROBIS database
- The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility, Niv
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3393028
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16166971
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2540557
