Galapagos Species Database

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Bimeria vestita Wright, 1859

Hidroide, Hydroid

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Cnidaria

Class
Hydrozoa

Order
Anthoathecata

Suborder
Filifera

Family
Bougainvilliidae

Genus
Bimeria

Species
vestita

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Bimeria amoyensis Hargitt, 1927 (synonym, indeterminate) Bimeria humilis Allman, 1877, Eudendrium vestitum Allman, 1888, Garveia humilis (Allman, 1877), Manicella fusca Allman, 1859 (Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Cryptogenic

Distribution

Distribution: Panama, Ecuador; Manta Bay (Fraser, 1938). Galapagos Island in Santa Cruz-Puerto Ayora dock, Tortuga Bay (Calder et al., 2019)

References

  • Calder, D.R. Carlton, J. T., Larson, K., Mallinson, J. J., Choong, H. H. C., Keith, I., & Ruiz, G. M (2019) Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from marine fouling assemblages in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Aquatic Invasions (2019) Volume 14, Issue 1: 21–58
  • Carlton, J. T. Keith, I., & Ruiz, G. M. (2019) Assessing marine bioinvasions in the Galápagos islands: Implications for conservation biology and marine protected areas. Aquatic Invasions, 14(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2019.14.1.01
  • Fraser, C. M. (1938) Hydroids of the 1932, 1933, 1935 and 1938 Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions In Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions (pp. 1–152)
  • 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, Bimeria vestita", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18860. Accessed 1 November 2026.