Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Halecium halecinum
Hydroides, Hydroids
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Hydrozoa
Order
Leptothecata
Family
Haleciidae
Genus
Halecium
Species
halecinum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Halecium geniculatum Norman, 1867, Halecium gracile Verrill, 1873c, Halecium halecium (Linnaeus, 1758), Sertularia halecina Linnaeus, 1758, Thoa halecina (Linnaeus, 1758) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- 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, Halecium halecinum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19542. Accessed 1 November 2026.