Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bimeria vestita
Hidroide, Hydroid
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: Panama, Ecuador; Manta Bay (Fraser, 1938). Galapagos Island in Santa Cruz-Puerto Ayora dock, Tortuga Bay (Calder et al., 2019)
- 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.