Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Anthoathecata > Suborder Filifera > Superfamily Bougainvillioidea > Family Bougainvilliidae > Genus Bougainvillia

Bougainvillia multicilia (Haeckel, 1879)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: species inquirenda

Original genus

Lizusa Haeckel, 1879

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Bougainvillia*	Lesson, 1830	accepted genus name
*Perigonymus*		orthographic variant
*Atractylis*	Wright, 1858	synonym
*Hippocrene*	Brandt, 1835	synonym
*Lizusa*	Haeckel, 1879	synonym
*Margelis*	Steenstrup, 1850	synonym
*Perigonimus*	M. Sars, 1846	synonym

Literature

original description	Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena. 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates.
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

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Bougainvillia multicilia (Haeckel, 1879). 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:117326