Marine Species Traits - Plumularia floridana Nutting, 1900

Traits taxon details

Plumularia floridana Nutting, 1900

AphiaID

117821 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117821)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Plumularia Lamarck, 1816

Original name

Plumularia floridana Nutting, 1900

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Nutting, C. C. 1900. American Hydroids. Part I The Plumularidae. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum Special Bulletin 4: 1-285., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1051509
page(s): 59, pl. 2 figs 4-5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Plumularia floridana Nutting, 1900. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117821 on 2026-08-16

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Plumularia floridana Nutting, 1900. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117821 on 2026-08-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2024-09-11 07:16:10Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

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original description Nutting, C. C. 1900. American Hydroids. Part I The Plumularidae. Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum Special Bulletin 4: 1-285., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1051509
page(s): 59, pl. 2 figs 4-5 [details]

context source (Bermuda) Calder D.R. (1997). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda: superfamily Plumularioidea. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions. 161: 1-86. [details]

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Calder D.R. (1997). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda: superfamily Plumularioidea. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions. 161: 1-86.
page(s): 15-17, 85 [details]

additional source Calder, D. R. and S. D. Cairns. 2009. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 381–394 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source Gil, M.; Ramil, F. (2021). Plumularioidea (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME). Marine Biology Research. 1-13., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2021.1913187
page(s): 8, fig. 5a [details]

redescription Calder, D. R. 2013. Some shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the central east coast of Florida, USA. Zootaxa 3648 (1): 001–072 , available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1
page(s): Calder, 2013: 37, fig. 10d; note: record Florida, taxonomy, synonymy [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Plumularia floridana)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records)
To ITIS