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Hydrozoa taxon details

Bougainvilliidae Lütken, 1850

Family Bougainvillidae, typical polyp and medusa
Family Bougainvillidae, typical polyp and medusa

1594  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1594)

accepted
Family
Atractylidae Hincks, 1868 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bimeridae Allman, 1872 · unaccepted (synyonym)
Bougainvilleae Lütken, 1850 · unaccepted (incorrect name formation)
Clavopsellidae Thiel, 1962 · unaccepted (synonym)
Dicorynidae Allman, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
Hippocrenidae McCrady, 1959 · unaccepted (synonym)
Margelidae Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
Nemopsidae L. Agassiz, 1862 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pachycordylini Cockerell, 1911 · unaccepted (synonym)
Thamnostomidae Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)

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  1. Genus Bimeria Wright, 1859
  2. Genus Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830
  3. Genus Calyptospadix Clarke, 1882
  4. Genus Chiarella Maas, 1897
  5. Genus Dicoryne Allman, 1859
  6. Genus Garveia Wright, 1859
  7. Genus Koellikerina Kramp, 1939
  8. Genus Millardiana Wedler & Larson, 1986
  9. Genus Nemopsis Agassiz, 1849
  10. Genus Nubiella Bouillon, 1980
  11. Genus Pachycordyle Weismann, 1883
  12. Genus Paranubiella Xu, Huang & Lin, 2018
  13. Genus Parawrightia Warren, 1907
  14. Genus Rhizorhagium M. Sars, 1874
  15. Genus Silhouetta Millard & Bouillon, 1973
  16. Genus Thamnostoma Haeckel, 1879
  17. Genus Velkovrhia Matjasic & Sket, 1971
  18. Genus Aselomaris Berrill, 1948 accepted as Rhizorhagium M. Sars, 1874 (synonym)
  19. Genus Atractylis Wright, 1858 accepted as Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830 (synonym)
  20. Genus Circe Brandt, 1835 accepted as Aglantha Haeckel, 1879 (invalid junior homonym of Circe Schumacher, 1817 [Mollusca])
  21. Genus Clavopsella Stechow, 1919 accepted as Pachycordyle Weismann, 1883 (synonym)
  22. Genus Corythamnium Allman, 1859 accepted as Garveia Wright, 1859 (synonym)
  23. Genus Gravelya Totton, 1930 accepted as Rhizorhagium M. Sars, 1874 (synonym)
  24. Genus Heterocordyle Allman, 1864 accepted as Dicoryne Allman, 1859 (synonym)
  25. Genus Hippocrene Brandt, 1835 accepted as Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830 (synonym)
  26. Genus Koellikeria L. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Koellikerina Kramp, 1939 (unaccepted > junior homonym, invalid junior homonym of Koellikeria Cobbold, 1860 [Trematoda])
  27. Genus Lizusa Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830 (synonym)
  28. Genus Lizzella Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Spirocodon Haeckel, 1880 (indeterminate type species)
  29. Genus Manicella Allman, 1859 accepted as Bimeria Wright, 1859 (Synonym)
  30. Genus Margelis Steenstrup, 1850 accepted as Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830 (synonym)
  31. Genus Perigonimus M. Sars, 1846 accepted as Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830 (synonym)
  32. Genus Perigonymus accepted as Perigonimus M. Sars, 1846 accepted as Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830 (spelling mistake by Allman in 1863)
  33. Genus Pruvotella Motz-Kossowska, 1905 accepted as Garveia Wright, 1859 (synonym)
  34. Genus Thamnitis Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Thamnostoma Haeckel, 1879 (synonym)
  35. Genus Thieliana Stepanjants, Timoshkin, Anokhin & Napara, 2000 accepted as Pachycordyle Weismann, 1883 (synonym)
  36. Genus Wrightia Allman, 1872 accepted as Rhizorhagium M. Sars, 1874 (invalid junior homonym of Wrightia L. Agassiz, 1862)
  37. Genus Parvanemus Mayer, 1904 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
  38. Genus Thamnostylus Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lütken, C., 1850. Nogle Bemaerkninger om Medusernes systematiske Inddeling, navnlig med Hensyn til Forbes's History of British Naked-eyed Medusae. Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., 1850 : 15-35., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7704526
page(s): 29; note: as Bougainvilleae Lütken, 1850, corrected to Bougainvilliidae by Allman, 1876 [details] 
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Bougainvilliidae Lütken, 1850. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1594 on 2025-07-14
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original description Lütken, C., 1850. Nogle Bemaerkninger om Medusernes systematiske Inddeling, navnlig med Hensyn til Forbes's History of British Naked-eyed Medusae. Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., 1850 : 15-35., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7704526
page(s): 29; note: as Bougainvilleae Lütken, 1850, corrected to Bougainvilliidae by Allman, 1876 [details] 

original description (of Hippocrenidae McCrady, 1959) McCrady, J. 1859. Gymnopthalmata of Charleston Harbor. Proceedings of the Elliott Society of Natural History 1: 103-221, pls 8-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42536587
page(s): 158 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Nemopsidae L. Agassiz, 1862) Agassiz, L. (1862). Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. <em>Little Brown, Boston.</em> 4: 1-380, pls 1-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16068829
page(s): 345 [details] 

original description (of Dicorynidae Allman, 1864) Allman, G. J. 1864c. On the construction and limitation of genera among the Hydroida. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 13: 345-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22217607
page(s): 366 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Atractylidae Hincks, 1868) Hincks, Th., 1868. A history of the British hydroid zoophytes.London, John van Voorst. Volume 1 : i-lxviii + 1-338, volume 2: pls 1-67., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46798707
page(s): 87 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Bimeridae Allman, 1872) Allman, G. J. 1872. A monograph of the gymnoblastic or tubularian hydroids. Conclusion of Part I, and Part II, containing descriptions of the genera and species of Gymnoblastea. Ray Society, London, pp. 155-450, plates 1-23., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.9122
page(s): 294 [details] 

original description (of Margelidae Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 68 [details] 

original description (of Lizusidae Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 80 [details] 

original description (of Thamnostomidae Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 84 [details] 

original description (of Pachycordylini Cockerell, 1911) Cockerell, T.D.A., 1911. The nomenclature of hydromedusae. Proc. biol. Soc. Wash. 24 : 77-86., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3779404
page(s): 77 [details] 

original description (of Clavopsellidae Thiel, 1962) Thiel, H. (1962). Clavopsella quadranularia nov. spec. (Clavopsellidae nov. fam.), ein neuer Hydroidpolyp aus der Ostsee und seine phylogenetische Bedeutung. <em>Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere.</em> 51(2): 227-260. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00409637
page(s): 249 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

original description (of Bougainvilleae Lütken, 1850) Lütken, C., 1850. Nogle Bemaerkninger om Medusernes systematiske Inddeling, navnlig med Hensyn til Forbes's History of British Naked-eyed Medusae. Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., 1850 : 15-35., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7704526
page(s): 29; note: (corrected to Bougainvilliidae by Allman, 1876) [details] 

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

basis of record Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. <i>Thalassia Salent. 24</i>: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Calder, D. R. (1988). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda. The Athecatae. <em>Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions.</em> 148: 1-107.
page(s): 12 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Schuchert, P. (2007). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 114: 195-396.
page(s): 196 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
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Diagnosis Hydroids solitary or colonial; hydranths stolonal, branched, or rarely sessile, arising from creeping hydrorhiza; erect colonies monopodial with terminal hydranths, stems monosiphonic or polysiphonic; perisarc terminating either at base of hydranths or forming a pseudohydrotheca; hydranths with one or more whorls of filiform distal tentacles, tentacles confined to narrow zone below hypostome; gonophores free medusae or fixed sporosacs developing either on hydrocauli, stolons, or blastostyles.
Medusae bell-shaped; mouth circular, with simple or dichotomously branched oral tentacles inserted distinctly above mouth rim, ending in nematocyst clusters; four radial canals and circular canal; marginal tentacles solid, contractile, either solitary or in clusters, borne on 4, 8, or 16 tentacular bulbs; gonads on manubrium, either forming a continuous ring or in adradial, interradial, or perradial position; adaxial ocelli absent or present.  [details]

Remark KEY TO THE GENERA OF THE BOUGAINVILLIIDAE: see Schuchert (2007) [details]
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