Marine Species Traits - Antennella quadriaurita Ritchie, 1909

Traits taxon details

Antennella quadriaurita Ritchie, 1909

AphiaID

284816 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:284816)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Antennella Allman, 1877

Original name

Antennella quadriaurita Ritchie, 1909

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Ritchie, J., 1909. Supplementary reports on the hydroids of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 47 1: 65-101., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32076781
page(s): 92, fig. 9 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Antennella quadriaurita Ritchie, 1909. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=284816 on 2026-07-12

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Antennella quadriaurita Ritchie, 1909. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=284816 on 2026-07-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-08-26 12:51:00Z

checked

Schuchert, Peter

2023-07-25 07:57:27Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

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original description Ritchie, J., 1909. Supplementary reports on the hydroids of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Trans. R. Soc. Edinb. 47 1: 65-101., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32076781
page(s): 92, fig. 9 [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 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]

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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors

additional source Calder D.R. (1997). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda: superfamily Plumularioidea. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions. 161: 1-86.
page(s): 26, 27-29, 32, 83 [details]

redescription Schuchert, P. (2015). On some hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Okinawa Islands, Japan. Revue suisse de Zoologie. 122(2): 325-370., available online at https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.30004
page(s): 341, fig. 17A-C; note: record Okinawa Islands [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records)
To ITIS