Hydrozoa taxon details
Hebella ritchiei Vervoort, 1959
284968 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:284968)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Vervoort, W., 1959. The Hydroida of the tropical west coast of Africa. Atlantide Report. Scient. Res. Danish Exped. coasts trop. W. Afr., 1945-1946 5 : 211-325.
page(s): 244, fig. 17 [details]
page(s): 244, fig. 17 [details]
Type locality contained in New South Wales
type locality contained in New South Wales [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Hebella ritchiei Vervoort, 1959. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php/api-docs/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=284968 on 2026-05-13
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Vervoort, W., 1959. The Hydroida of the tropical west coast of Africa. Atlantide Report. Scient. Res. Danish Exped. coasts trop. W. Afr., 1945-1946 5 : 211-325.
page(s): 244, fig. 17 [details]
basis of record Vervoort, W.; Schuchert, P. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
status source Gil M., Ramil F. (2025). Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Guinea Bissau. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5577(1): 1-89., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5577.1.1
page(s): 24, fig. 4A; note: regarded as distinct species due to characteristic gonotheca [details]
status source Boero, F., J. Bouillon & S. Kubota, 1997. The medusae of some species of Hebella Allman, 1888, and Anthohebella gen. nov. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Lafoeidae), with a world synopsis of species. Zool. Verh. Leiden 310 : 1-53.
page(s): 39 [details]
page(s): 244, fig. 17 [details]
basis of record Vervoort, W.; Schuchert, P. & van der Land, J. (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
status source Gil M., Ramil F. (2025). Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Guinea Bissau. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5577(1): 1-89., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5577.1.1
page(s): 24, fig. 4A; note: regarded as distinct species due to characteristic gonotheca [details]
status source Boero, F., J. Bouillon & S. Kubota, 1997. The medusae of some species of Hebella Allman, 1888, and Anthohebella gen. nov. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Lafoeidae), with a world synopsis of species. Zool. Verh. Leiden 310 : 1-53.
page(s): 39 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Biology colonial [details]
