Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Leptothecata > Superfamily Sertularioidea > Family Sertulariidae > Genus Diphasia

Diphasia nigra (Pallas, 1766)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Sertularia Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Diphasia*	Agassiz, 1862	accepted genus name

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	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	Gil, M.; Ramil, F. (2017). The genus Diphasia L. Agassiz, 1862 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) in Northwest Africa. Zootaxa. 4363(3): 301.
redescription	Cornelius, P. F. S. (1995). North-West European Thecate Hydroids and their Medusae.Part 2. Sertulariidae to Campanulariidae. 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. 50 : i-vii, 1-386.
taxonomy source	Cornelius P.F. (1979). A revision of the species of Sertulariidae (Coelenterata: Hydroida) recorded from Britain and nearby seas. Bulletin of the British Museum. 34: 243-321.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Diphasia nigra (Pallas, 1766). 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:117881