World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) - Clytia brevithecata (Thornely, 1900)

WRiMS taxon details

Clytia brevithecata (Thornely, 1900)

AphiaID

1554223 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1554223)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Clytia Lamouroux, 1812

Original name

Campanularia brevithecata Thornely, 1900

Synonymised names

Clytia hummelincki (Leloup, 1935) · unaccepted

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Thornely, L.R., 1900. The hydroid zoophytes collected by Dr. Willey in the Southern Seas. In: Zool. results based on material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere collected during the years 1895-97 by A. Willey 4 : 451-458, pl. 44., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21340271#page/127/mode/1up
page(s): 454 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Clytia brevithecata (Thornely, 1900). Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1554223 on 2026-06-28

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Clytia brevithecata (Thornely, 1900). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1554223 on 2026-06-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2021-12-24 11:00:09Z

created

Galea, Horia

2022-01-04 09:42:20Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

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original description (of ) Thornely, L.R., 1900. The hydroid zoophytes collected by Dr. Willey in the Southern Seas. In: Zool. results based on material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere collected during the years 1895-97 by A. Willey 4 : 451-458, pl. 44., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21340271#page/127/mode/1up
page(s): 454 [details]

basis of record Calder D.R., Faucci. (2021). Shallow water hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the 2002 NOWRAMP cruise to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5085(1): 1-73., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5085.1.1
page(s): 16, fig. 5a; note: is indistinguishable from Clytia hummelincki (Leloup, 1935) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) (from synonym Clytia hummelincki (Leloup, 1935))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Clytia hummelincki (Leloup, 1935))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Clytia hummelincki) (from synonym Clytia hummelincki (Leloup, 1935))
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Clytia hummelincki (Leloup, 1935))
To PESI (from synonym Clytia hummelincki (Leloup, 1935))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (4 records) (from synonym Clytia hummelincki (Leloup, 1935))