Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Anthoathecata > Suborder Filifera > Family Stylasteridae

Pliobothrus Pourtalès, 1868

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Pliobothrus gracilis Zibrowius & Cairns, 1992
Pliobothrus symmetricus Pourtalès, 1868

Literature

original description	Pourtalès, L.F. de. (1868). Contributions to the fauna of the Gulf Stream at great depths (2d series). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, in Cambridge. 1(7): 121-142.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 112-120
additional source	Boschma H. (1956). Milleporina and Stylasterina. In: Moore RC (ed) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology F. Coelenterata. Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press. F90–F106.
additional source	Cairns, S.D. & J.A. Grant-Mackie. (1993). Review of the fossil Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the New Zealand region. New Zealand J. Geol. Geoph. 36(1): 1-8.
additional source	Moseley, H.N. (1881 [1880]). Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 2 (part 7): 1-248, pl. Hydrocorallinae 1-14, Helioporidae 1-2, Madreporaria 1-16.
additional source	Kirkpatrick R. (1887). Description of a new genus of Stylasteridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5). 19: 212-214, pl. 8.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Hickson SJ. (1912). Notes on some Stylasterina in the Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris. 18: 461-466.
additional source	Broch H. (1914). Stylasteridae. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 5 (5): 1-27, pls. 1-5, map.
additional source	Moseley HN. (1879). On the structure of the Stylasteridae, a family of the hydroid stony corals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 169 (2): 425-503, pls. 38-44.
additional source	Cairns, S.D. (1983). A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bulletin of Marine Science. 33(2): 427-508.
redescription	Zibrowius, H. & S.D. Cairns. (1992). Revision of the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Mémoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, série A, Zoolologie. 153: 1-136.
redescription	Cairns, S.D. (1986). A revision of the Northwest Atlantic Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 418: 1-131.
redescription	Cairns, S.D. (1983). A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bulletin of Marine Science. 33(2): 427-508.
identification resource	Cairns, S.D. (1992). A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 3. Keys to the genera. Bulletin of Marine Science. 49(1-2): 538-545. [1991]. published 27 Jan 1992.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Pliobothrus Pourtalès, 1868. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117244