African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Thyroscyphus fruticosa (Esper, 1793)

AfReMaS name details

Thyroscyphus fruticosa (Esper, 1793)

AphiaID

220590 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220590)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (incorrect gender suffix)

Accepted name

Thyroscyphus fruticosus (Esper, 1797)

Rank

Species

Parent

Thyroscyphus Allman, 1877

Original name

Sertularia fruticosa Esper, 1797

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Esper, E.J.C. (1797). Fortsetzungen der Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungennach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet nebst Beschreibungen. Erster Theil.(Nürnberg): 1-230, pls XXXII-LXI., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.118730
page(s): plate 34 in part 3; note: see https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50809415 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Thyroscyphus fruticosa (Esper, 1793). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220590 on 2026-06-15

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Thyroscyphus fruticosa (Esper, 1793). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220590 on 2026-06-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-10-13 09:05:27Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2011-11-11 06:39:13Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2023-08-13 16:59:22Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

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original description (of ) Esper, E.J.C. (1797). Fortsetzungen der Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungennach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet nebst Beschreibungen. Erster Theil.(Nürnberg): 1-230, pls XXXII-LXI., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.118730
page(s): plate 34 in part 3; note: see https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50809415 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

basis of record Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record)