Canadian Register of Marine Species - Calyptospadix cerulea Clarke, 1882

WoRMS taxon details

Calyptospadix cerulea Clarke, 1882

Garveia franciscana

AphiaID

292221 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:292221)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Calyptospadix Clarke, 1882

Original name

Calyptospadix cerulea Clarke, 1882

Synonymised names

Bimeria franciscana Torrey, 1902 · unaccepted (basionym)

Bimeria Monodi Billard, 1927 · unaccepted (synonym)

Bimeria tunicata Fraser, 1943 · unaccepted (synonym)

Garveia cerulea (Clarke, 1882) · unaccepted

Garveia franciscana (Torrey, 1902) · unaccepted (synonym)

Perigonimus megas Kinne, 1956 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Clarke, S. F. 1882. New and interesting hydroids from Chesapeake Bay. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 135-142, pls 7-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7751215
page(s): 136, pl 7 figs 1-9. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Chesapeake Bay

type locality contained in Chesapeake Bay [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Calyptospadix cerulea Clarke, 1882. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=292221 on 2025-07-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-21 13:45:25Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2009-08-14 19:23:00Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2012-03-09 07:43:07Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2019-11-04 14:25:09Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Clarke, S. F. 1882. New and interesting hydroids from Chesapeake Bay. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3: 135-142, pls 7-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7751215
page(s): 136, pl 7 figs 1-9. [details]

original description (of Bimeria tunicata Fraser, 1943) Fraser, C. M. (1943). Distribution records of some hydroids in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, with description of new genera and new species. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club. 22: 75-98, pls 15-20.
page(s): 76, pl. 15 fig. 2 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Perigonimus megas Kinne, 1956) Kinne, O., 1956. Perigonimus megas, ein neuer brackwasserlebender Hydroidpolyp aus der Familie Bougainvilliidae. Zool. Jb., Syst. 84 2-3: 257-268.
page(s): 257, figs 1-7 [details]

original description (of Bimeria franciscana Torrey, 1902) Torrey H.B. (1902). The Hydroida of the Pacific Coast of North America. University of California Publications Zoology. 1: 1-104, pls 1-11., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29942277
page(s): 28, pl. 1 fig. 4 [details]

original description (of Bimeria Monodi Billard, 1927) Billard, A. (1927d). Hydrozoa I. Hydrozoa benthonica (excl. Hydrocorallidae). In: Th. Monod, Contribution à l'étude de la faune du Cameroun. Faune des Colonies Françaises. 1(6): 467-474.
page(s): 467, figs 1-2a [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

status source Calder, D. R. (2019). On a collection of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the southwest coast of Florida, USA. Zootaxa. 4689(1): 1-141., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4689.1.1
page(s): 22; note: [synonymy with Bimeria franciscana] [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
Dutch	berenvachtpoliep [from synonym]	[details]
English	rope grass hydroid [from synonym]	[details]
Spanish	pelo de oso [from synonym]	[details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Bimeria tunicata Fraser, 1943)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Garveia franciscana (Torrey, 1902))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Perigonimus megas Kinne, 1956)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Garveia cerulea (Clarke, 1882))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Bimeria franciscana Torrey, 1902)
To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS) (from synonym Garveia franciscana (Torrey, 1902))
To Niet-inheemse soorten Belgisch deel Noordzee en aanpalende estuaria (in Dutch) (from synonym Garveia franciscana (Torrey, 1902))
To PESI (from synonym Garveia franciscana (Torrey, 1902))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (22 records) (from synonym Garveia franciscana (Torrey, 1902))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (5 records)
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Garveia franciscana

Image from synonym