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97 species with fin ray counts including ? spines in dorsal and ? in anal fins (see list below)
Scientific Name
English Name
Distribution
Max. Length (cm)
Bimera vestita
Northeast Atlantic and th
Bimeria vestita
Antarctic, Atlantic, Cari
Bougainvillia alderi
Northeast Atlantic
Bougainvillia aurantiaca
Western Pacific
Bougainvillia bitentaculata
Northwest Pacific
0.08 WD
Bougainvillia bougainvillei
Northeast Pacific
0.9 H
Bougainvillia britannica
Northern Pacific, Atlanti
0.1 WD
Bougainvillia carolinensis
Western Atlantic.
0.4 WD
Bougainvillia charcoti
Northeast Atlantic
0.9 WD
Bougainvillia chenyapingii
Northwest Pacific
Bougainvillia frondosa
Western Atlantic.
0.125 WD
Bougainvillia fulva
Indo-Pacific.
1.1 WD
Bougainvillia glorietta
Eastern Pacific
Bougainvillia inaequalis
Western Atlantic
Bougainvillia involuta
Western Central Pacific
0.45 WD
Bougainvillia lamellata
Western Pacific and Asia-
Bougainvillia macloviana
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic O
1.3 WD
Bougainvillia maniculata
Mediterranean
0.15 WD
Bougainvillia multicilia
Strait of Gibraltar.
0.5 WD
Bougainvillia multitentaculata
Northeast Pacific
Bougainvillia muscoides
Southeast Pacific
Bougainvillia muscus
Huddle hydroid
Atlantic and Pacific Ocea
Bougainvillia nigritella
Northeast Atlantic
0.3 WD
Bougainvillia niobe
Western Atlantic
0.5 WD
Bougainvillia platygaster
Atlantic Ocean
1.2 WD
Bougainvillia principis
Arctic, Atlantic Ocean an
1 WD
Bougainvillia prolifera
Southwest Pacific
0.25 WD
Bougainvillia pyramidata
Northeast Atlantic
0.6 WD
Bougainvillia rugosa
Western Atlantic
0.15 WD
Bougainvillia simplex
Northeast Atlantic
Bougainvillia superciliaris
Arctic, Northern Atlantic
0.9 WD
Bougainvillia trinema
Southwest Atlantic and Pa
0.3 WD
Bythotiara depressa
Eastern Pacific
Bythotiara drygalskii
Antarctic Pacific
1.1 H
Bythotiara stilbosa
Eastern Pacific
0.54 WD
Chiarella centripetalis
Eastern Central Pacific
1.5 WD
Dicoryne conferta
Northeast Atlantic, Easte
Dicoryne conybearei
Northeast Atlantic and th
Dicoryne flexuosa
Western Atlantic
Garveia annulata
Orange hydroid
Eastern Pacific
15 H
Garveia brevis
Western Atlantic
Garveia franciscana
Rope grass hyroid
Atlantic, Pacific Oceans
Garveia gracilis
Eastern Pacific
Garveia grisea
Northeast Atlantic and th
Garveia nutans
Northeast Atlantic, Easte
Garveia pusilla
Eastern Pacific
Garveia robusta
Eastern Pacific
Garveia tenella
Eastern Pacific
Koellikerina constricta
Eastern Indian Ocean
0.4 H
Koellikerina diforficulata
Northwest Pacific
Koellikerina elegans
Western Atlantic
0.7 H
Koellikerina fasciculata
Mediterranean
0.9 WD
Koellikerina maasi
Antarctic
0.9 WD
Koellikerina multicirrata
Western Central Pacific
0.3 WD
Koellikerina octonemalis
Malay Archipelago.
0.5 WD
Koellikerina ornata
Eastern Indian Ocean
0.8 H
Lizzella hyalina
Northeast Atlantic
0.6 WD
Lizzella octella
Northwest Pacific
1 WD
Lizzia alvarinoae
Eastern Central Pacific a
Lizzia blondina
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic O
0.2 WD
Lizzia elisabethae
Northeast Atlantic
0.4 WD
Lizzia ferrari
Eastern Central Pacific
Lizzia fulgurans
Atlantic Ocean and the Me
0.1 H
Lizzia gracilis
Western Atlantic
0.3 WD
Lizzia octostyla
Mediterranean.
0.05 WD
Meator rubatra
Northwest Pacific
0.18 WD
Millardiana longitentaculata
Western Central Atlantic
Nemopsis bachei
Atlantic Ocean.
1.1 H
Nemopsis crucifera
Northeast Atlantic
0.4 WD
Nemopsis dofleini
Northwest Pacific
1 WD
Nemopsis heteronema
Northeast Atlantic
1 WD
Nubiella paramitra
Northwest Pacific
Nubiella terminaliknoba
Northwest Pacific
Nubiella tubularia
Northwest Pacific
Pachycordyle conica
Eastern Central Pacific
0.1 WD
Pachycordyle degenerata
Western Central Atlantic
0.03 WD
Pachycordyle globulosa
Western Central Pacific
0.1 WD
Pachycordyle lineata
Western Central Pacific
Pachycordyle michaeli
Western Atlantic, Southea
Pachycordyle napolitana
Western Central Atlantic
Pachycordyle neapolitana
Mediterranean
Pandea conica
Southwest Atlantic and th
1 WD
Pandea minima
Southwest Pacific
0.2 WD
Pandea rubra
Antarctic and Eastern Pac
7.5 WD
Paranubiella shenzhenensis
Northwest Pacific
Parawrightia robusta
Western Atlantic
Perigonimus vesicarius
Northeast Atlantic
Rhizorhagium antarcticum
Antarctic Indian Ocean
Rhizorhagium formosum
Eastern Pacific
Rhizorhagium roseum
Creeping orange hydroid
Atlantic Ocean, Eastern P
Silhouetta uvacarpa
Western Central Atlantic
Thamnostoma alexandri
Eastern Central Pacific a
0.3 WD
Thamnostoma cidaritis
Mediterranean
Thamnostoma dibalium
Mediterranean
0.6 WD
Thamnostoma macrostomum
Western Central Pacific
0.8 WD
Thamnostoma russelli
Northeast Atlantic
0.135 WD
Thamnostoma tetrellum
Western Atlantic
0.4 WD