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Family: Bougainvilliidae



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130 species
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Aselomaris arenosa
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Bimera vestita
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Bimeria australis
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Bimeria brevis
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Bimeria currumbinensis
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Bimeria fluminalis
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Bimeria franciscana
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Bimeria gracilis
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Bimeria pusilla
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Bimeria rigida
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Bimeria robusta
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Bimeria tenella
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Bimeria vestita
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Bougainvillia aberrans
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Bougainvillia alderi
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Bougainvillia aurantiaca
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Max. Length 0.1 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia bitentaculata
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Max. Length 0.9 cm H

 
Bougainvillia bougainvillei
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Max. Length 0.1 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia britannica
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Max. Length 0.4 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia carolinensis
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Max. Length 0.9 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia charcoti
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Bougainvillia chenyapingii
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Bougainvillia crassa
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Bougainvillia dimorpha
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Max. Length 0.1 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia frondosa
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Max. Length 1.1 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia fulva
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Bougainvillia glorietta
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Bougainvillia inaequalis
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Max. Length 0.5 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia involuta
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Bougainvillia lamellata
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Bougainvillia leizhouensis
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Bougainvillia longicirra
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Max. Length 1.3 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia macloviana
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Max. Length 0.2 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia maniculata
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Max. Length 0.5 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia multicilia
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Bougainvillia multitentaculata
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Bougainvillia muscoides
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Bougainvillia muscus
[Huddle hydroid]
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Max. Length 0.3 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia nigritella
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Max. Length 0.5 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia niobe
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Max. Length 1.2 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia platygaster
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Max. Length 1 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia principis
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Max. Length 0.3 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia prolifera
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Max. Length 0.6 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia pyramidata
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Bougainvillia robusta
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Max. Length 0.2 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia rugosa
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Bougainvillia simplex
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Max. Length 0.9 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia superciliaris
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Max. Length 0.3 cm WD

 
Bougainvillia trinema
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Bougainvillia vervoorti
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Bythotiara depressa
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Max. Length 1.1 cm H

 
Bythotiara drygalskii
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Max. Length 0.5 cm WD

 
Bythotiara stilbosa
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Calyptospadix cerulea
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Max. Length 1.5 cm WD

 
Chiarella centripetalis
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Dicoryne conferta
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Dicoryne conybearei
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Dicoryne flexuosa
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Max. Length 15 cm H

 
Garveia annulata
[Orange hydroid]
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Garveia arborea
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Garveia brevis
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Garveia cerulea
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Garveia clevelandensis
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Garveia formosa
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Garveia franciscana
[Rope grass hyroid]
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Garveia gracilis
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Garveia grisea
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Garveia nutans
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Garveia polarsterni
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Garveia pusilla
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Garveia robusta
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Garveia tenella
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Max. Length 0.4 cm H

 
Koellikerina constricta
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Koellikerina diforficulata
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Max. Length 0.7 cm H

 
Koellikerina elegans
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Max. Length 0.9 cm WD

 
Koellikerina fasciculata
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Max. Length 0.9 cm WD

 
Koellikerina maasi
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Max. Length 0.3 cm WD

 
Koellikerina multicirrata
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Max. Length 0.5 cm WD

 
Koellikerina octonemalis
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Max. Length 0.8 cm H

 
Koellikerina ornata
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Max. Length 0.6 cm WD

 
Lizzella hyalina
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Max. Length 1 cm WD

 
Lizzella octella
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Lizzia alvarinoae
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Max. Length 0.2 cm WD

 
Lizzia blondina
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Max. Length 0.4 cm WD

 
Lizzia elisabethae
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Lizzia ferrari
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Lizzia ferrarii
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Max. Length 0.1 cm H

 
Lizzia fulgurans
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Max. Length 0.3 cm WD

 
Lizzia gracilis
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Max. Length 0.1 cm WD

 
Lizzia octostyla
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Max. Length 0.2 cm WD

 
Meator rubatra
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Millardiana longitentaculata
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Max. Length 1.1 cm H

 
Nemopsis bachei
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Max. Length 0.4 cm WD

 
Nemopsis crucifera
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Max. Length 1 cm WD

 
Nemopsis dofleini
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Max. Length 1 cm WD

 
Nemopsis heteronema
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Nemopsis hexacanalis
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Nubiella mitra
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Nubiella paramitra
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Nubiella terminaliknoba
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Nubiella tubularia
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Max. Length 0.1 cm WD

 
Pachycordyle conica
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Max. Length 0.0 cm WD

 
Pachycordyle degenerata
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Max. Length 0.1 cm WD

 
Pachycordyle globulosa
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Pachycordyle lineata
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Pachycordyle michaeli
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Pachycordyle napolitana
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Pachycordyle neapolitana
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Max. Length 1 cm WD

 
Pandea conica
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Max. Length 0.2 cm WD

 
Pandea minima
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Max. Length 7.5 cm WD

 
Pandea rubra
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Paranubiella shenzhenensis
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Parawrightia robusta
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Perigonimus breviconis
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Perigonimus vesicarius
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Perigonimus yoldiarcticae
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Rhizorhagium album
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Rhizorhagium antarcticum
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Rhizorhagium arenosum
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Rhizorhagium formosum
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Rhizorhagium michaeli
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Rhizorhagium roseum
[Creeping orange hydroid]
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Silhouetta uvacarpa
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Max. Length 0.3 cm WD

 
Thamnostoma alexandri
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Thamnostoma cidaritis
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Max. Length 0.6 cm WD

 
Thamnostoma dibalium
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Thamnostoma eilatensis
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Max. Length 0.8 cm WD

 
Thamnostoma macrostomum
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Max. Length 0.1 cm WD

 
Thamnostoma russelli
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Max. Length 0.4 cm WD

 
Thamnostoma tetrellum
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Scientific Name English Name Distribution Max. Length (cm) Year
Aselomaris arenosa 1863
Bimera vestita Northeast Atlantic and th 1859
Bimeria australis Northeast Atlantic and th 1937
Bimeria brevis Northeast Atlantic and th
Bimeria currumbinensis Northeast Atlantic and th 1959
Bimeria fluminalis Northeast Atlantic and th 1915
Bimeria franciscana Northeast Atlantic and th 1902
Bimeria gracilis Northeast Atlantic and th 1976
Bimeria pusilla Northeast Atlantic and th
Bimeria rigida Northeast Atlantic and th 1919
Bimeria robusta Northeast Atlantic and th 1902
Bimeria tenella Northeast Atlantic and th 1925
Bimeria vestita Antarctic, Atlantic, Cari 1859
Bougainvillia aberrans Antarctic, Atlantic, Cari 1993
Bougainvillia alderi Northeast Atlantic 1863
Bougainvillia aurantiaca Western Pacific 1980
Bougainvillia bitentaculata Northwest Pacific 0.1 WD 1925
Bougainvillia bougainvillei Northeast Pacific 0.9 H 1835
Bougainvillia britannica Northern Pacific, Atlanti 0.1 WD 1841
Bougainvillia carolinensis Western Atlantic. 0.4 WD 1859
Bougainvillia charcoti Northeast Atlantic 0.9 WD 1913
Bougainvillia chenyapingii Northwest Pacific 2007
Bougainvillia crassa Northwest Pacific 1938
Bougainvillia dimorpha Northwest Pacific 1996
Bougainvillia frondosa Western Atlantic. 0.1 WD 1900
Bougainvillia fulva Indo-Pacific. 1.1 WD 1889
Bougainvillia glorietta Eastern Pacific 1902
Bougainvillia inaequalis Western Atlantic 1944
Bougainvillia involuta Western Central Pacific 0.5 WD 1947
Bougainvillia lamellata Western Pacific and Asia-
Bougainvillia leizhouensis Western Pacific and Asia- 2021
Bougainvillia longicirra Western Pacific and Asia- 1914
Bougainvillia macloviana Pacific Ocean, Atlantic O 1.3 WD 1836
Bougainvillia maniculata Mediterranean 0.2 WD 1864
Bougainvillia multicilia Strait of Gibraltar. 0.5 WD 1879
Bougainvillia multitentaculata Northeast Pacific 1923
Bougainvillia muscoides Southeast Pacific 1846
Bougainvillia muscus Huddle hydroid Atlantic and Pacific Ocea 1863
Bougainvillia nigritella Northeast Atlantic 0.3 WD 1848
Bougainvillia niobe Western Atlantic 0.5 WD 1894
Bougainvillia platygaster Atlantic Ocean 1.2 WD 1879
Bougainvillia principis Arctic, Atlantic Ocean an 1 WD 1850
Bougainvillia prolifera Southwest Pacific 0.3 WD 1884
Bougainvillia pyramidata Northeast Atlantic 0.6 WD 1853
Bougainvillia robusta Northeast Atlantic 1938
Bougainvillia rugosa Western Atlantic 0.2 WD 1882
Bougainvillia simplex Northeast Atlantic 1853
Bougainvillia superciliaris Arctic, Northern Atlantic 0.9 WD 1849
Bougainvillia trinema Southwest Atlantic and Pa 0.3 WD 1884
Bougainvillia vervoorti Southwest Atlantic and Pa 1995
Bythotiara depressa Eastern Pacific 1960
Bythotiara drygalskii Antarctic Pacific 1.1 H 1912
Bythotiara stilbosa Eastern Pacific 0.5 WD 1979
Calyptospadix cerulea Eastern Pacific
Chiarella centripetalis Eastern Central Pacific 1.5 WD 1897
Dicoryne conferta Northeast Atlantic, Easte 1856
Dicoryne conybearei Northeast Atlantic and th 1864
Dicoryne flexuosa Western Atlantic 1874
Garveia annulata Orange hydroid Eastern Pacific 15 H 1901
Garveia arborea Eastern Pacific 1907
Garveia brevis Western Atlantic 1918
Garveia cerulea Western Atlantic
Garveia clevelandensis Western Atlantic 1959
Garveia formosa Western Atlantic 1898
Garveia franciscana Rope grass hyroid Atlantic, Pacific Oceans 1902
Garveia gracilis Eastern Pacific 1876
Garveia grisea Northeast Atlantic and th 1905
Garveia nutans Northeast Atlantic, Easte 1859
Garveia polarsterni Northeast Atlantic, Easte 2001
Garveia pusilla Eastern Pacific 1925
Garveia robusta Eastern Pacific 1902
Garveia tenella Eastern Pacific 1925
Koellikerina constricta Eastern Indian Ocean 0.4 H 1932
Koellikerina diforficulata Northwest Pacific 1978
Koellikerina elegans Western Atlantic 0.7 H 1900
Koellikerina fasciculata Mediterranean 0.9 WD 1809
Koellikerina maasi Antarctic 0.9 WD 1910
Koellikerina multicirrata Western Central Pacific 0.3 WD 1928
Koellikerina octonemalis Malay Archipelago. 0.5 WD 1905
Koellikerina ornata Eastern Indian Ocean 0.8 H 1959
Lizzella hyalina Northeast Atlantic 0.6 WD 1866
Lizzella octella Northwest Pacific 1 WD 1879
Lizzia alvarinoae Eastern Central Pacific a 1980
Lizzia blondina Pacific Ocean, Atlantic O 0.2 WD 1848
Lizzia elisabethae Northeast Atlantic 0.4 WD 1879
Lizzia ferrari Eastern Central Pacific 1980
Lizzia ferrarii Eastern Central Pacific 1980
Lizzia fulgurans Atlantic Ocean and the Me 0.1 H 1865
Lizzia gracilis Western Atlantic 0.3 WD 1900
Lizzia octostyla Mediterranean. 0.1 WD 1879
Meator rubatra Northwest Pacific 0.2 WD 1913
Millardiana longitentaculata Western Central Atlantic 1986
Nemopsis bachei Atlantic Ocean. 1.1 H 1849
Nemopsis crucifera Northeast Atlantic 0.4 WD 1853
Nemopsis dofleini Northwest Pacific 1 WD 1909
Nemopsis heteronema Northeast Atlantic 1 WD 1879
Nemopsis hexacanalis Northeast Atlantic 1994
Nubiella mitra Northeast Atlantic 1980
Nubiella paramitra Northwest Pacific 2007
Nubiella terminaliknoba Northwest Pacific 2019
Nubiella tubularia Northwest Pacific 2007
Pachycordyle conica Eastern Central Pacific 0.1 WD 1959
Pachycordyle degenerata Western Central Atlantic 0.0 WD 1904
Pachycordyle globulosa Western Central Pacific 0.1 WD 1959
Pachycordyle lineata Western Central Pacific 1959
Pachycordyle michaeli Western Atlantic, Southea 1948
Pachycordyle napolitana Western Central Atlantic 1883
Pachycordyle neapolitana Mediterranean 1883
Pandea conica Southwest Atlantic and th 1 WD 1827
Pandea minima Southwest Pacific 0.2 WD 1884
Pandea rubra Antarctic and Eastern Pac 7.5 WD 1913
Paranubiella shenzhenensis Northwest Pacific 2019
Parawrightia robusta Western Atlantic 1907
Perigonimus breviconis Western Atlantic
Perigonimus vesicarius Northeast Atlantic
Perigonimus yoldiarcticae Northeast Atlantic
Rhizorhagium album Northeast Atlantic 1938
Rhizorhagium antarcticum Antarctic Indian Ocean 1907
Rhizorhagium arenosum Antarctic Indian Ocean 1862
Rhizorhagium formosum Eastern Pacific 1889
Rhizorhagium michaeli Eastern Pacific 1948
Rhizorhagium roseum Creeping orange hydroid Atlantic Ocean, Eastern P 1874
Silhouetta uvacarpa Western Central Atlantic 1973
Thamnostoma alexandri Eastern Central Pacific a 0.3 WD 1904
Thamnostoma cidaritis Mediterranean 1883
Thamnostoma dibalium Mediterranean 0.6 WD 1851
Thamnostoma eilatensis Mediterranean 1972
Thamnostoma macrostomum Western Central Pacific 0.8 WD 1879
Thamnostoma russelli Northeast Atlantic 0.1 WD 1939
Thamnostoma tetrellum Western Atlantic 0.4 WD 1879



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