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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Cnidaria (phylum) » Hydrozoa (class) » Leptothecata (order) » Plumulariidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 11 058011 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Plumularia insignis Allman, 1983 |
| CAAB category: | 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies | |
| Family: | Plumulariidae (hydroids) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a hydroid] | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Plumularia abietina | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in subantarctic/Antarctic waters: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Southern Ocean (non coastal) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
11 058904
Plumularia spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a hydroid |
| Taxon Notes: | This species is only known reliably from the subantarctic Prince Edward Island, all other records, including those from other subantarctic islands and New Zealand are regarded as dubious or incorrect. See Ansín Agís et al, 2016. | ||||
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| Record source: | Sieg, J. Wägele, J.W., 1990, Fauna der Antarktis. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin & Hamburg 197pp. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Ansín Agís, J. Ramil, F. Calder, D.R., 2016. One new genus and three new species of plumulariid hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Plumulariidae) from the western Pacific Ocean, with a re-examination of Plumularia insignis Allman, 1883 and related taxa., Zootaxa, Vol. 4169(1): 57-86. |