Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Dynamena crisioides Lamouroux, 1824

hidroide, Hydrozoa

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Cnidaria

Class
Hydrozoa

Order
Leptothecata

Suborder
Conica

Family
Sertulariidae

Genus
Dynamena

Species
crisioides

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Disertasia crisioides (Lamouroux, 1824), Dynamena crisiodes Lamouroux, 1824, Dynamena crisoides, Dynamena tubuliformis Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890, Salacia interupta (Allman, 1885), Thuiaria tubuliformis (Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: (D. crisoides) Mexico, Costa Rica, Cocos Islands, Colombia and Galapagos Islands in Marchena I, Seymour North, Baltra I, Santiago I, Santa Cruz I, Española I (Calder et al., 2003; Fraser, 1938, Fraser, 1948).

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Calder, D.R. Mallinson, J.J., Collins, K. & Hickman, C.P. (2003) Additions to the Hydroids (Cnidaria) of the Galapagos, with a List of Species Reported from the Islands. J. Nat. Hist. 37:1173-1218.
  • Freaser, McLean (1948) Hydroids of the Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions since March, 1938. Fraser, M. (1948). Hydroids of the Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions since March, 1938. In Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. (5th ed., pp. 179–334).
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Dynamena crisioides", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15786. Accessed 31 October 2026.