WoRMS taxon details
Gonothyraea loveni (Allman, 1859)
117377 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117377)
accepted
Species
Calycella parkeri Hilgendorf, 1898 · unaccepted (synonym)
Gonothyraea hyalina Hincks, 1866 · unaccepted (synonym)
Laomedea hyalina (Hincks, 1866) · unaccepted (synonym)
Laomedea loveni Allman, 1859 · unaccepted (basionym)
Obelia loveni (Allman, 1859) · unaccepted
marine, terrestrial
(of Laomedea loveni Allman, 1859) Allman, G. J. (1859). Notes on the hydroid zoophytes. <em>Annals and Magazine of natural History.</em> (3)4: 137-144., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2356276
page(s): 138 [details]
page(s): 138 [details]
Distribution cosmopolitan
Distribution southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern...
Distribution cosmopolitan [details]
Distribution southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern...
Distribution southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from the eastern Bradelle valley to West, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), Lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), and the Middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Gonothyraea loveni (Allman, 1859). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117377 on 2025-04-07
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Laomedea loveni Allman, 1859) Allman, G. J. (1859). Notes on the hydroid zoophytes. <em>Annals and Magazine of natural History.</em> (3)4: 137-144., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2356276
page(s): 138 [details]
original description (of Gonothyraea hyalina Hincks, 1866) Hincks, T. 1866a. On new British Hydroida. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 18: 296-299., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15603451
page(s): 297 [details]
original description (of Calycella parkeri Hilgendorf, 1898) Hilgendorf, F. W. 1898. On the hydroids of the neighbourhood of Dunedin. - Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 30: 200-218, pls 16-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25449556
page(s): 205, p.l 17 figs 3, 3a-d, pl. 18 [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]
page(s): 138 [details]
original description (of Gonothyraea hyalina Hincks, 1866) Hincks, T. 1866a. On new British Hydroida. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 18: 296-299., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15603451
page(s): 297 [details]
original description (of Calycella parkeri Hilgendorf, 1898) Hilgendorf, F. W. 1898. On the hydroids of the neighbourhood of Dunedin. - Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 30: 200-218, pls 16-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25449556
page(s): 205, p.l 17 figs 3, 3a-d, pl. 18 [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]
Taxonomy
redescription
Cornelius, P. F. S. (1995). North-West European Thecate Hydroids and their Medusae.Part 2. Sertulariidae to Campanulariidae. <em>In: R.S.K. Barnes & J.H. Crothers, eds, Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series). The Linn. Soc. London and Est. Coas. Sci. Ass. - Field Studies Council.</em> 50 : i-vii, 1-386. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
context source (Bermuda)
Carpenter, E. J.; Smith, Jr., K. L. (1972). Plastics on the Sargasso Sea surface. Science, 175(4028): 1240-1241 [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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 Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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






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Biology colonial [details]Distribution cosmopolitan [details]
Distribution southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from the eastern Bradelle valley to West, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), Lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), and the Middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details]
Habitat infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Remark Hydroids present in the inner and outer harbour of Zeebrugge, and the waterway to Bruges. Collected in April and September, always with medusoids attached to the gonothecae. [details]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Laomedea loveni Allman, 1859)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Laomedea hyalina (Hincks, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Gonothyraea hyalina Hincks, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gonothyraea loveni)
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Laomedea loveni Allman, 1859)
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Laomedea loveni Allman, 1859)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (15 records) (from synonym Gonothyraea hyalina Hincks, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (23 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Laomedea loveni Allman, 1859)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Laomedea hyalina (Hincks, 1866))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Gonothyraea hyalina Hincks, 1866)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gonothyraea loveni)
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Laomedea loveni Allman, 1859)
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To PESI (from synonym Laomedea loveni Allman, 1859)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (15 records) (from synonym Gonothyraea hyalina Hincks, 1866)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (23 records)
To ITIS