original description
Wagner, Nicolas. (1885). Die Wirbellosen des Weissen Meeres. Erster Band : zoologische Forschungen an der Küste des Solowetzkischen Meerbusens in den Sommermonaten der Jahre 1877, 1878, 1879 und 1882. <em>Leipzig, W. Engelmann.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.65513
page(s): 74, pl. 4 figs 1-2 [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]
additional source
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors 
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
redescription
Schuchert, P. (2010). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Capitata Part 2. <em>Revue Suisse de Zoologie.</em> 117: 337-555., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.117793
page(s): 516, fig. 83 [details] 
redescription
Schuchert, P. 2012. North-West European Athecate Hydroids and their Medusae. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 59. The Linnean Society of London, London, pp. i-viii, 1-364.
page(s): 108, fig. 103 [details] Available for editors 
redescription
Pyataeva, S. V.; Hopcroft, R. R.; Lindsay, D. J.; Collins, A. G. (2016). DNA barcodes unite two problematic taxa: the meiobenthic Boreohydra simplex is a life-cycle stage of Plotocnide borealis (Hydrozoa: Aplanulata). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4150(1): 85-92., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4150.1.5
page(s): 85 [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Distribution Distribution of this species in the Mediterranean is unrealistic and quite unlikely for this arctic species [details]Unreviewed
Biology solitary on soft bottom [details]