Galapagos Species Database

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Sarsia tubulosa (M. Sars, 1835)

Hydroides, Hydroids

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Cnidaria

Class
Hydrozoa

Order
Anthoathecata

Suborder
Capitata

Family
Corynidae

Genus
Sarsia

Species
tubulosa

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Coryne sarsi (Lovén, 1836), Coryne tubulosa (M. Sars, 1835), Medusa proboscidea Dalyell, 1847, Oceania tubulosa M. Sars, 1835, Sarsia barentsi Linko, 1905, Sarsia macrorhynchia Busch, 1851, Sarsia mirabilis L. Agassiz, 1849, Sarsia pattersoni Haddon, 1886, Sarsia reticulata (Agassiz, 1862), Sarsia sarsii (Lovén, 1836), Syncoryna Sarsii Lovén, 1836, Syncoryne decipiens Dujardin, 1845, Syncoryne mirabilis (L. Agassiz, 1849) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: (S. mirabilis) Galapagos Islands in Wolf and in the north of Tagus Cove (Fraser, 1934).

References

  • 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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