WoRMS taxon details
Crateritheca billardi (Bale, 1915)
289727 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289727)
accepted
Species
Sertularia billardi Bale, 1915 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Sertularia billardi Bale, 1915) Bale, W.M., 1915. Report on the Hydroida collected in the Great Australian Bight and other localities. Part 3. Fish. Zool. (Biol.) Res. Fishing Exper. F.I.S. "Endeavour", 1909-1914 3 5: 241-336.
page(s): 261 [details]
page(s): 261 [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2026). World Hydrozoa Database. Crateritheca billardi (Bale, 1915). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289727 on 2026-09-26
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Sertularia billardi Bale, 1915) Bale, W.M., 1915. Report on the Hydroida collected in the Great Australian Bight and other localities. Part 3. Fish. Zool. (Biol.) Res. Fishing Exper. F.I.S. "Endeavour", 1909-1914 3 5: 241-336.
page(s): 261 [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]
page(s): 261 [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]
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): 112, fig. 22A-F; note: record New Zealand [details]
page(s): 112, fig. 22A-F; note: record 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 
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Biology colonial; fixed gonophores [details]
