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Hydrozoa taxon details

Silicularia Meyen, 1834

AphiaID

174270 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174270)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Campanulariidae Johnston, 1836

Original name

Silicularia Meyen, 1834

Synonymised names

Hypanthea Allman, 1876 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Silicularia hemisphaerica (Allman, 1888)
Species Silicularia pedunculata (Jäderholm, 1904)
Species Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834
Species Silicularia undulata (Mulder & Trebilcock, 1914)
Species Silicularia bilabiata (Coughtrey, 1875) accepted as Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834 (synonym)
Species Silicularia divergens Hartlaub, 1905 accepted as Campanularia pedunculata Jäderholm, 1904 accepted as Silicularia pedunculata (Jäderholm, 1904) (synonym)
Species Silicularia georgiana (Pfeffer, 1889) accepted as Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834 (synonym)
Species Silicularia gracilis Meyen, 1834 accepted as Campanularia clytioides (Lamouroux, 1824) (possible synonym)
Species Silicularia repens (Allman, 1876) accepted as Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834 (synonym)
Species Silicularia reticulata (Hartlaub, 1905) accepted as Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Meyen, F.J.F. (1834). Beiträge zur Zoologie gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde, von Dr F.J.F. Meyen. V. Über das Leuchten des Meeres und Beschreibung einiger Polypen und anderer niederer Tiere. Verhandlungen den Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher. 16 (suppl. 1): 125-216., available online at https://books.google.ch/books?id=mHNPAAAAYAAJ&hl=de&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false, https://archive.org/details/darwin-online_1832-35_Meyen_A923/page/n315/mode/2up
page(s): 204 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Silicularia Meyen, 1834. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174270 on 2025-05-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-07-14 07:37:10Z

created

Claus, Simon

2006-04-19 09:58:39Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-08-17 10:42:25Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2015-04-13 13:03:07Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2015-06-18 09:00:51Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

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original description Meyen, F.J.F. (1834). Beiträge zur Zoologie gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde, von Dr F.J.F. Meyen. V. Über das Leuchten des Meeres und Beschreibung einiger Polypen und anderer niederer Tiere. Verhandlungen den Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher. 16 (suppl. 1): 125-216., available online at https://books.google.ch/books?id=mHNPAAAAYAAJ&hl=de&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false, https://archive.org/details/darwin-online_1832-35_Meyen_A923/page/n315/mode/2up
page(s): 204 [details]

original description (of Hypanthea Allman, 1876) Allman, G. J. 1876a. Descriptions of some new species of Hydroida from Kerguelen's Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)17: 113-115., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19267015
page(s): 115 [details]

basis of record Govindarajan, A.F.; Boero, F.; Halanych, K.M. (2006). [Phylogenetic analysis with multiple markers indicates repeated loss of the adult medusa stage in Campanulariidae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria)]. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38: 820-834 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Cnidaria Antarctic checklist (look up in IMIS) [details]

Definitions

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