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WoRMS taxon detailsBougainvillia muscus (Allman, 1863)
 117328 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117328)
accepted
Species
Bougainvillia alderi (Hodge, 1863) · unaccepted (synonym (medusa only))
Bougainvillia autumnalis Hartlaub, 1897 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia autumnalis var. magna Babnik, 1948 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bougainvillia benedenii Bonnevie, 1898 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia diplectanos Busch, 1851 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia fructicosa Allman, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia fruticosa Allman, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia Gibbsi Mayer, 1900 · unaccepted (possible synonym)
Bougainvillia maniculata Haeckel, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia nana Hartlaub, 1911 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia octocilia (Dalyell, 1847) · unaccepted (possible synonym)
Bougainvillia ramosa (Van Beneden, 1844) · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia ramosa f. benedenii Bonnevie, 1898 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia ramosa f. vanbenedeni Millard, 1975 · unaccepted (lapsus pro B. ramosus f. benedenii)
Bougainvillia ramosa muscus (Allman, 1863) · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia ramosa nana Hartlaub, 1911 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bougainvillia ramosa var. minima Kramp & Damas, 1925 · unaccepted (synonym)
Eudendrium ramosum Van Beneden, 1844 · unaccepted (invalid name, junior homonym of...)
invalid name, junior homonym of Eudendrium ramosum (Linaeus, 1758) Lizusa octocilia Aurivillius, 1898 · unaccepted (invalid name emendation for...)
invalid name emendation for Medusa octocilia Dalyell, 1847 Margelis maniculata Haeckel, 1864 · unaccepted
Medusa ocilia Dalyell, 1847 · unaccepted (possible synonym)
Medusa octocilia Dalyell, 1847 · unaccepted (possible synonym)
Perigonimus muscus Allman, 1863 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Perigonymus muscus Allman, 1863 · unaccepted (Misspelling of the genus)
marine,
recent only
(of Perigonymus muscus Allman, 1863) Allman, G. J. (1863). Notes on the Hydroida. I. On the structure of Corymorpha nutans. II. Diagnoses of new species of Tubularidae obtained, during the autumn of 1862, on the coasts of Shetland and Devonshire. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3)11: 1-12., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22221455
page(s): 12 [details]
Note Torquay, Devon, Great Britain, in tide pools...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Torquay, Devon, Great Britain, in tide pools near low-water mark [details]
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Bougainvillia muscus (Allman, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117328 on 2025-07-16
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Bougainvillia ramosa (Van Beneden, 1844)) Beneden, P.J. van. (1844). Recherches sur l'embryogénie des Tubulaires, et l'histoire naturelle des différents genres de cette famille qui habitent la côte d'Ostende. <em>Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles.</em> XVII: 1-72, plates I-VI. (look up in IMIS) [details]  original description (of Bougainvillia fructicosa Allman, 1864) Allman, G.J., 1864d. Notes on the Hydroida. I. Note, supplemental and corrective, to a Synopsis of the genera and species of Tubularian and Campanularian Hydroids, published in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for May 1864, p. 350. II. The medusa of Zanclea implexa, Alder. Annals and Magazine of natural History (3) 14: 57-64., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/72305#71 page(s): 58 [details] original description (of Eudendrium ramosum Van Beneden, 1844) Beneden, P.J. van. (1844). Recherches sur l'embryogénie des Tubulaires, et l'histoire naturelle des différents genres de cette famille qui habitent la côte d'Ostende. <em>Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et des Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles.</em> XVII: 1-72, plates I-VI. (look up in IMIS) [details] original description (of Bougainvillia fruticosa Allman, 1864) Allman, G.J., 1864d. Notes on the Hydroida. I. Note, supplemental and corrective, to a Synopsis of the genera and species of Tubularian and Campanularian Hydroids, published in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for May 1864, p. 350. II. The medusa of Zanclea implexa, Alder. Annals and Magazine of natural History (3) 14: 57-64., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/72305#71 page(s): 58 [details] original description (of Perigonymus muscus Allman, 1863) Allman, G. J. (1863). Notes on the Hydroida. I. On the structure of Corymorpha nutans. II. Diagnoses of new species of Tubularidae obtained, during the autumn of 1862, on the coasts of Shetland and Devonshire. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3)11: 1-12., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22221455 page(s): 12 [details] original description (of Bougainvillia autumnalis var. magna Babnik, 1948) Babnik, P., 1948. Hidromeduze iz srednjega in junega Jadrana v letih 1939 in 1940. Hydromedusae from the middle and South Adriatic 1939 and 1940. Acta Adriat. 3 9: 275-340. page(s): 290, fig. 2 [details] original description (of Bougainvillia maniculata Haeckel, 1864) Haeckel, E. (1864). Beschreibung neuer Craspedoter Medusen aus dem Golfe von Nizza. <em>Jenaer Zeitschrift für Medizin und Naturwissenschaften.</em> 1: 326-342., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8620985 page(s): 327 [details] original description (of Bougainvillia ramosa var. minima Kramp & Damas, 1925) Kramp P.L., Damas D. (1925). Les Méduses de la Norvège. Introduction et partie speciale. <em>Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorik Forening.</em> 80: 217-323. page(s): 254, figs 5-7 [details] original description (of Bougainvillia ramosa nana Hartlaub, 1911) Hartlaub, C., 1911. XII. Craspedote Medusen. I. Teil. 2 Lief.: Familie III Margelidae. Nord. Plankton 6 : 137-235., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32672825 page(s): 189 [details] original description (of Bougainvillia diplectanos Busch, 1851) Busch, W. (1851). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklung einiger wirbellosen Seethiere. August Hirschwald, Berlin, pp. 143, pls 1-17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9996133 page(s): 22, pl. 2, fig. 9 [details] original description (of Medusa ocilia Dalyell, 1847) Dalyell, J. G. (1847). Rare and remarkable animals of Scotland, represented from living subjects: with practical observations on their nature. By Sir John Graham Dalyell, baronet. <em>John Van Voorst. London.</em> volume 1, pp. v-xii (270 total pages in volume)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5984#/summary page(s): 66 [details] original description (of Medusa octocilia Dalyell, 1847) Dalyell, J. G. (1847). Rare and remarkable animals of Scotland, represented from living subjects: with practical observations on their nature. By Sir John Graham Dalyell, baronet. <em>John Van Voorst. London.</em> volume 1, pp. v-xii (270 total pages in volume)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5984#/summary page(s): 72 [details] original description (of Lizusa octocilia Aurivillius, 1898) Aurivillius, C.W.S. (1898). Vergleichende thiergeographische Untersuchungen über die Plankton-Fauna des Skageraks. [Comparative zoology studies on the plankton fauna of the Skagerrak.]. <em>Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps- Akademiens Handlingar.</em> 30 (3): 1-427., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41929712 page(s): 114; note: (invalid name emendation for Medusa octocilia Dalyell, 1847) [details] original description (of Bougainvillia autumnalis Hartlaub, 1897) Hartlaub, C. (1897). Die Hydromedusen Helgolands. <em>Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen.</em> 2: 449-536, pls 14-23., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14748081 page(s): 465, pl. 15 figs 11-13 [details] original description (of Bougainvillia benedenii Bonnevie, 1898) Bonnevie, K. (1898). Zur Systematik der Hydroiden. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 63: 465-495, plates 25-27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43167443 page(s): 484, pl. 26 figs 34-35 [details] original description (of Bougainvillia Gibbsi Mayer, 1900) Mayer, A. G. 1900. Descriptions of new and little-known medusae from the western Atlantic. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard 37: 1-9, plates 1-6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4271637 page(s): 5, pl. 4 figs 14-15 [details] original description (of Bougainvillia ramosa f. vanbenedeni Millard, 1975) Millard, N.A.H. (1975). Monograph on the Hydroida of southern Africa. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 68: 1-513., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40921697 page(s): 99 [details] basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details] Taxonomysource of synonymy
Calder, D. R. (1988). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda. The Athecatae. <em>Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions.</em> 148: 1-107. [details] Available for editors  [request]redescription Schuchert, P. (2007). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. <em>Revue suisse de Zoologie.</em> 114: 195-396. page(s): 199, figs 1-3 [details] redescription Schuchert, P. 2012. North-West European Athecate Hydroids and their Medusae. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 59. The Linnean Society of London, London, pp. i-viii, 1-364. page(s): 197, fig. 196 [details] Available for editors [request]Othercontext source (Introduced species)
Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors
[request]context source (HKRMS) Chan, L. C. (1995). The ecology of marine plankton in Tai Tam Bay, Hong Kong, with special reference to barnacle (Arthropoda: Cirripedia) larvae. <em>PhD thesis. The University of Hong Kong.</em> [details] context source (Bermuda) Calder, D. R. (1988). Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda. The Athecatae. <em>Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions.</em> 148: 1-107. [details] Available for editors [request]context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Segura-Puertas, L., L. Celis, and L. Chiaverano. 2009. Medusozoans (Cnidaria: Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, and Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 369–379 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Pre [details] additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Watson, J. E. (2024). The marine hydroids of south-eastern Australia (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). <em>Museum Victoria Science Reports.</em> 22: 1-121., available online at https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mvsr.2024.22 page(s): 32, figs 46-47; note: Habitat -- on jetty piles and in sheltered water; older colonies often partly overgrown by soft sponge. Seasonality -- colonies grow and become fertile in autumn and winter. Distribution -- wo... Habitat -- on jetty piles and in sheltered water; older colonies often partly overgrown by soft sponge. Seasonality -- colonies grow and become fertile in autumn and winter. Distribution -- world-wide including southern Australia. May have been introduced to Australia as a fouling organism on colonial era ships. [request]additional source Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. <i>Thalassia Salent. 24</i>: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype MHNG INVE2940, geounit French Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology colonial [details]Distribution circum-(sub)tropical [details] Type locality Torquay, Devon, Great Britain, in tide pools near low-water mark [details] From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species impact in Australian part of the Tasman Sea (Marine Region) : Water abstraction or nuisance fouling [details]Introduced species vector dispersal Galapagos part of the South Pacific Ocean (Marine Region) Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms [details] Introduced species vector dispersal in Australian part of the Tasman Sea (Marine Region) : Fisheries: accidental with deliberate translocations of fish or shellfish [details] Introduced species vector dispersal Galapagos part of the South Pacific Ocean (Marine Region) Ships: accidental as attached or free-living fouling organisms [details] Introduced species vector dispersal United States part of the North Pacific Ocean (Marine Region) Debris: transport of species on human generated debris. Japanese tsunami though to be responsible for spread of this species to this location [details] Introduced species vector dispersal in Bulgarian part of the Black Sea : Shipping [details] Unreviewed
Habitat Colonies found on shells [details]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland (from synonym Bougainvillia ramosa (Van Beneden, 1844))
To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes) To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) (from synonym Eudendrium ramosum Van Beneden, 1844) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Perigonimus muscus Allman, 1863) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Bougainvillia alderi (Hodge, 1863)) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (255 publications) (from synonym Eudendrium ramosum Van Beneden, 1844) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Bougainvillia fruticosa Allman, 1864) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Bougainvillia benedenii Bonnevie, 1898) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Bougainvillia Gibbsi Mayer, 1900) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Bougainvillia maniculata Haeckel, 1864) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Bougainvillia autumnalis Hartlaub, 1897) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (72 publications) (from synonym Bougainvillia ramosa (Van Beneden, 1844)) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Bougainvillia ramosa (Van Beneden, 1844)) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Bougainvillia muscus) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eudendrium ramosum) (from synonym Eudendrium ramosum Van Beneden, 1844) To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Perigonymus muscus Allman, 1863) To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To PESI To PESI (from synonym Bougainvillia ramosa (Van Beneden, 1844)) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (14 records) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records) (from synonym Bougainvillia fructicosa Allman, 1864) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (5 records) (from synonym Bougainvillia ramosa (Van Beneden, 1844)) To ITIS |
