Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Leptothecata > Superfamily Plumularioidea > Family Aglaopheniidae > Genus Lytocarpia

Lytocarpia myriophyllum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Sertularia Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lytocarpia*	Kirchenpauer, 1872	accepted genus name
*Aglaophenia (Lytocarpia)*	Kirchenpauer, 1872	synonym
*Thecocarpus*	Nutting, 1900	synonym

Species group names

*Thecocarpus myriophyllum*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: pheasant's tail coralline; pheasant-tail hydroid sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

German: Fasanenfedermoos

Literature

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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Fourt, M.; Goujard, A.; Pérez, T.; Chevaldonné, P. (2017). Guide de la faune profonde de la mer Méditerranée. Explorations des roches et des canyons sous-marins des côtes françaises. Patrimoines naturels. Publications scientifiques du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris. 75: 1-184.
additional source	Calder, D. (2003). Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Lytocarpia myriophyllum (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:117302