WoRMS taxon details
Synthecium megathecum Billard, 1925
285929 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:285929)
accepted
Species
Synthecium longithecum Totton, 1930 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (synonym)
Synthecium megathecum var. parvulum Billard, 1925 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Variety Synthecium megathecum var. parvulum Billard, 1925 accepted as Synthecium megathecum Billard, 1925 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Billard A. (1925a). Note sur quelques espèces la plupart nouvelles de Synthécides et de Sertularides du Siboga. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 49: 646-652.
page(s): 648 [details]
page(s): 648 [details]
Type locality contained in Molucca Sea
type locality contained in Molucca Sea [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Synthecium megathecum Billard, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=285929 on 2025-05-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Billard A. (1925a). Note sur quelques espèces la plupart nouvelles de Synthécides et de Sertularides du Siboga. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 49: 646-652.
page(s): 648 [details]
original description (of Synthecium longithecum Totton, 1930) Totton, A. K. 1930. Coelenterata. Part V.- Hydroida. - British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910, Natural History Report, Zoology 5: 131-252, pls 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49469919
page(s): 174, fig. 26 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Synthecium megathecum var. parvulum Billard, 1925) Billard A. (1925b). Les hydroïdes de l'expédition du Siboga. II. Synthecidae et Sertularidae. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> 7b: 117-232, 7 pls.
page(s): 132 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record 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]
page(s): 648 [details]
original description (of Synthecium longithecum Totton, 1930) Totton, A. K. 1930. Coelenterata. Part V.- Hydroida. - British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition, 1910, Natural History Report, Zoology 5: 131-252, pls 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49469919
page(s): 174, fig. 26 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Synthecium megathecum var. parvulum Billard, 1925) Billard A. (1925b). Les hydroïdes de l'expédition du Siboga. II. Synthecidae et Sertularidae. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> 7b: 117-232, 7 pls.
page(s): 132 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record 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]
Taxonomy
redescription
Billard A. (1925b). Les hydroïdes de l'expédition du Siboga. II. Synthecidae et Sertularidae. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> 7b: 117-232, 7 pls.
page(s): 130, fig. 6, pl. 7 fig. 2 [details] Available for editors [request]
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): 253, fig. 60A-B; note: re-examination of type material; records New Zealand [details]
page(s): 130, fig. 6, pl. 7 fig. 2 [details] Available for editors
[request]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): 253, fig. 60A-B; note: re-examination of type material; records New Zealand [details]
Other
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]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Biology colonial; fixed sporosacs [details]
