Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Leptothecata > Family Zygophylacidae > Genus Cryptolaria

Cryptolaria exserta Busk, 1858

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cryptolaria*	Busk, 1857	accepted genus name
*Perisiphonia*	Allman, 1888	synonym

Literature

original description	Busk, G. (1858). Zoophytology. On some Madeiran Polyzoa. Quarterly journal of microscopical science. 6: 124-130, 261-263, pls 18-20.
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	Ralph, P.M. (1958). New Zealand thecate hydroids. Part II.- Families Lafoeidae, Lineolariidae, Haleciidae and Syntheciidae. Trans. R. Soc. N.Z. 85(2): 301-356 figs. 1-18.
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. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101.
additional source	Hirohito, 1995. The hydroids of Sagami Bay. (Part 2. Thecata). Publs Biol. Lab., Imp. Household, Tokyo, 1995 : i-l, 1-244.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Cryptolaria exserta Busk, 1858. 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:117687