Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Symplectoscyphus erectus
Hydrozoo, Hydrozoa
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Hydrozoa
Order
Leptothecata
Family
Symplectoscyphidae
Genus
Symplectoscyphus
Species
erectus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Sertularella erecta Fraser, 1938
Origin: Native
Distribution: (S. erecta) Lower California and Galapagos Island in Isabela (Fraser, 1934).
- Fraser, C.M. (1939) Distribution of the hydroids in the collections of the Allan Hancock Expeditions. Fraser, M. (1939). Distribution of the hydroids in the collections of the Allan Hancock Expeditions. In Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. (Vol. 4, pp. 155–178).
- 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, Symplectoscyphus erectus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19453. Accessed 1 November 2026.