Hydrozoa - The World Hydrozoa Database - Stylaster gigas Cairns & Grant-Mackie, 1993 †

Hydrozoa taxon details

Stylaster gigas Cairns & Grant-Mackie, 1993 †

AphiaID

528689 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:528689)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Stylaster Gray, 1831

Original name

Stylaster gigas Cairns & Grant-Mackie, 1993 †

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

fossil only

Original description

Cairns, S.D. & J.A. Grant-Mackie. (1993). Review of the fossil Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the New Zealand region. <em>New Zealand J. Geol. Geoph.</em> 36(1): 1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1993.9514549
page(s): 2 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Stylaster gigas Cairns & Grant-Mackie, 1993 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php/api-docs/css/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528689 on 2026-09-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-10-05 13:57:56Z

created

Cairns, Stephen

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original description Cairns, S.D. & J.A. Grant-Mackie. (1993). Review of the fossil Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the New Zealand region. <em>New Zealand J. Geol. Geoph.</em> 36(1): 1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.1993.9514549
page(s): 2 [details] Available for editors

Definitions

To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (10 records)