Galapagos Species Database

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

Campanularia volubilis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Hydroides, Hydroid

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Cnidaria

Class
Hydrozoa

Order
Leptothecata

Suborder
Proboscoida

Family
Campanulariidae

Genus
Campanularia

Species
volubilis

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Campanularia urceolata Clark, 1877, Clytia volubilis (Linnaeus, 1758), Sertularia uniflora Pallas, 1766, Sertularia volubilis Linnaeus, 1758 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Galapagos Islands in Black beach (Floreana) (Fraser, 1938).

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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"Galapagos Species Database, Campanularia volubilis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19537. Accessed 1 November 2026.