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

Thuiaria articulata (Pallas, 1766)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Sertularia Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Thuiaria*	Fleming, 1828	accepted genus name
*Selaginopsis*	Allman, 1876	synonym
*Thujaria*		synonym

Species group names

*Salacia articulata*	(Pallas, 1766)	synonym
*Sertularia lichenastrum*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym
*Thuiaria lichenastrum*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: sea spleenwort

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	Naumov D.V. (1969). Hydroids and Hydromedusae of the USSR. Israel Program for scientific translation, Jerusalem. Pp. i-vi, 1-631, pls 1-30, 1 folding plate.
additional source	Calder, D. (2003). Checklist of Hydroids, hydromedusae and siphonophores reported from the Bay of Fundy.
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	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
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.
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.
redescription	Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydroids of Greenland and Iceland (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Meddelelser om Grønland. Bioscience. 53: 1-184.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Thuiaria articulata (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:117932