UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO)

URMO taxon details

Thyroscyphus Allman, 1877

AphiaID

203893 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:203893)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Thyroscyphus ramosus Allman, 1877 (type by monotypy)

Type taxon of

Thyroscyphidae Stechow, 1920

Parent

Thyroscyphidae Stechow, 1920

Original name

Thyroscyphus Allman, 1877

Synonymised names

Cnidoscyphus Splettst�sser, 1929 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (synonym)

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Species Thyroscyphus aequalis Warren, 1908
Species Thyroscyphus bedoti Splettst�sser, 1929
Species Thyroscyphus fruticosus (Esper, 1797)
Species Thyroscyphus longicaulis Splettst�sser, 1929
Species Thyroscyphus macrocyttarus (Lamouroux, 1826)
Species Thyroscyphus marginatus (Allman, 1877)
Species Thyroscyphus ramosus Allman, 1877
Species Thyroscyphus sibogae Billard, 1930
Species Thyroscyphus torresii (Busk, 1852)
Species Thyroscyphus balei Calder, 1983 accepted as Thyroscyphus macrocyttarus (Lamouroux, 1826) (synonym)
Species Thyroscyphus intermedius Congdon, 1907 accepted as Symmetroscyphus intermedius (Congdon, 1907) (basionym)
Species Thyroscyphus scorpioides Vervoort, 1993 accepted as Tuberocaulus scorpioides (Vervoort, 1993) (genus transfer)
Species Thyroscyphus vitiensis Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890 accepted as Thyroscyphus fruticosus (Esper, 1797) (synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Allman, G.J. (1877). Report on the Hydroida collected during the Exploration of the Gulf Stream by L. F. de Pourtal�s, Assistant United States Coast Survey. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 5: 1-66, plates 1-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4311825
page(s): 10 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Cartwright, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Thyroscyphus Allman, 1877. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=203893 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Thyroscyphus Allman, 1877. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=203893 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2011-03-15 08:36:49Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2015-04-14 11:57:11Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2017-08-31 10:03:14Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2024-10-07 11:11:46Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

[taxonomic tree]

original description Allman, G.J. (1877). Report on the Hydroida collected during the Exploration of the Gulf Stream by L. F. de Pourtal�s, Assistant United States Coast Survey. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 5: 1-66, plates 1-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4311825
page(s): 10 [details]

original description (of Cnidoscyphus Splettst�sser, 1929) Splettst�sser W. (1929). Beitr�ge zur Kenntnis der Sertulariiden. Thyroscyphus Allm., Cnidoscyphus nov. gen., Parascyphus Ritchie. Zoologische Jahrb�cher, Abteilung f�r Systematik, Oekologie und Geographie der Tiere. 58(1): 1-134.
page(s): 70 [details] Available for editors

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

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thyroscyphus)
To Genbank (from synonym Cnidoscyphus Splettst�sser, 1929)
To Genbank
To ITIS