WoRMS taxon details
Synthecium elegans Allman, 1872
220583 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220583)
accepted
Species
Synthecium ramosum Allman, 1885 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Allman, G. J. 1872. A monograph of the gymnoblastic or tubularian hydroids. Conclusion of Part I, and Part II, containing descriptions of the genera and species of Gymnoblastea. Ray Society, London, pp. 155-450, plates 1-23., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.9122
page(s): 229, fig [details]
page(s): 229, fig [details]
Type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Synthecium elegans Allman, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220583 on 2025-08-23
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Allman, G. J. 1872. A monograph of the gymnoblastic or tubularian hydroids. Conclusion of Part I, and Part II, containing descriptions of the genera and species of Gymnoblastea. Ray Society, London, pp. 155-450, plates 1-23., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.9122
page(s): 229, fig [details]
original description (of Synthecium ramosum Allman, 1885) Allman, G. J. (1885). Description of Australian, Cape and other Hydoids, mostly new, from the collection of Miss H. Gatty. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 19: 132-161, pls 7-26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31788343
page(s): 137, pl. 12 figs 3-4 [details]
basis of record Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 229, fig [details]
original description (of Synthecium ramosum Allman, 1885) Allman, G. J. (1885). Description of Australian, Cape and other Hydoids, mostly new, from the collection of Miss H. Gatty. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 19: 132-161, pls 7-26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31788343
page(s): 137, pl. 12 figs 3-4 [details]
basis of record Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Vervoort, W., & Watson, J. E. 2003. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Leptothecata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) (thecate hydroids). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 119: 1-538.
page(s): 249, fig. 59A-D [details]
page(s): 249, fig. 59A-D [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Vervoort, W.; Schuchert, P. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Vervoort, W.; Schuchert, P. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Biology colonial; fixed sporosacs [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ツツウミシバ | [details] |
