WoRMS name details
original description
(of Tubularia clytioides Lamouroux, 1824) Lamouroux, J. V. F. 1824. Description des polypiers flexibles, pp. 603-643, plates 88-95. In: Freycinet, d. L., (Ed.) Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du Roi, éxecuté sur les corvettes l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Zoologie, rédigé par MM. J. R. C. Quoy et J. P. Gaimard, Pillet Aîné, Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40871598 page(s): 620, pl. 95 figs 6-8 [details]
original description
(of Silicularia gracilis Meyen, 1834) Meyen, F.J.F. (1834). Uber das leuchten des Meeres, und Beschreibuhg einiger Polypen und anderer niederer Thierre. <em>In, Meyen, F. J. F. (ed.) IBeitrage zur Zoologie, gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde. Verhandlungen den Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher .</em> 16: 125-216., available online at http://books.google.ch/books?id=_ckAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false page(s): 206, pl 35 figs 12-13 [details]
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]
From editor or global species database
Validity Cornelius (1982) considered this species as perhaps belonging to Obelia dichotoma. However, he must have been wrong in assuming that Lamouroux' specimens were branched, erect colonies. Lamouroux clearly depicts stolonal colonies.
Campanularia clytioides could be conspecific with O. integra. [details]From other sources
Biology colonial [details]
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