WoRMS taxon details
Garveia Wright, 1859
117018 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117018)
accepted
Genus
Garveia nutans Wright, 1859 (type by monotypy)
Corythamnium Allman, 1859 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pruvotella Motz-Kossowska, 1905 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Garveia annulata Nutting, 1901
- Species Garveia arborea (Browne, 1907)
- Species Garveia belyaevi Stepanjants & Chernyshev, 2015
- Species Garveia clevelandensis Pennycuik, 1959
- Species Garveia crassa (Stechow, 1923)
- Species Garveia gracilis (Clark, 1876)
- Species Garveia grisea (Motz-Kossowska, 1905)
- Species Garveia nutans Wright, 1859
- Species Garveia brevis (Fraser, 1918) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Garveia laxa (Fraser, 1938) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Garveia pusilla (Fraser, 1925) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Garveia robusta (Torrey, 1902) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Garveia tenella (Fraser, 1925) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Garveia biscayana (Browne, 1907) accepted as Amphinema biscayana (Browne, 1907)
- Species Garveia cerulea (Clarke, 1882) accepted as Calyptospadix cerulea Clarke, 1882
- Species Garveia formosa (Fewkes, 1889) accepted as Rhizorhagium formosum (Fewkes, 1889) (genus transfer)
- Species Garveia franciscana (Torrey, 1902) accepted as Calyptospadix cerulea Clarke, 1882 (synonym)
- Species Garveia fruticosa Scheurig, 1922 accepted as Garveia nutans Wright, 1859 (possible synonym)
- Species Garveia groenlandica Levinson, 1893 accepted as Rhizorhagium roseum M. Sars, 1874 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, synonym)
- Species Garveia humilis (Allman, 1877) accepted as Bimeria vestita Wright, 1859 (synonym)
- Species Garveia polarsterni Stepanjants, 2001 (unaccepted > nomen nudum, The name appeared in a species list, compiled by S.D. Stepanjants, in a publication by Sirenko (2001) but the name refers to a hydroid that remains neither described nor illustrated.)
- Species Garveia robusta (Warren, 1907) accepted as Parawrightia robusta Warren, 1907
- Species Garveia roseum (Sars, 1874) accepted as Rhizorhagium roseum M. Sars, 1874
- Species Garveia sarsii (Bonnevie, 1898) accepted as Rhizorhagium roseum M. Sars, 1874 (synonym)
marine, terrestrial
Wright, T.S. (1859). Observations on British zoophytes. <em>The Edinburgh new philosophical journal.</em> 10:105-114, plates 8-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25486569
page(s): 109 [details]
page(s): 109 [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2026). World Hydrozoa Database. Garveia Wright, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117018 on 2026-05-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Wright, T.S. (1859). Observations on British zoophytes. <em>The Edinburgh new philosophical journal.</em> 10:105-114, plates 8-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25486569
page(s): 109 [details]
original description (of Pruvotella Motz-Kossowska, 1905) Motz-Kossowska, S.; Zool. (1905). Contribution à la connaissance des hydraires de la Méditerranée occidentale. I. Hydraires gymnoblastiques. <em>Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et générale, 4me série.</em> 43: 39-98., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5656272
page(s): 77 [details]
original description (of Corythamnium Allman, 1859) Allman, G. J. 1859b. Notes on the hydroid zoophytes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)4: 48-55., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18637963
page(s): 54 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 109 [details]
original description (of Pruvotella Motz-Kossowska, 1905) Motz-Kossowska, S.; Zool. (1905). Contribution à la connaissance des hydraires de la Méditerranée occidentale. I. Hydraires gymnoblastiques. <em>Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et générale, 4me série.</em> 43: 39-98., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5656272
page(s): 77 [details]
original description (of Corythamnium Allman, 1859) Allman, G. J. 1859b. Notes on the hydroid zoophytes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)4: 48-55., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18637963
page(s): 54 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Schuchert, P. (2007). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 114: 195-396., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.80395
page(s): 250 [details]
page(s): 250 [details]
Other
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
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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 Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors
[request]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
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Diagnosis Colonial hydroids with erect, branched stems, monosiphonic or polysiphonic; hydranth fusiform, hypostome dome-shaped or conical, surrounded by one distal whorl of tentacles; pseudohydrothecae covering polyp base but not sheathing tentacles; gonophores fixed sporosacs, borne on pedicels on hydrocauli or on hydrorhiza. [details]
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