Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Anthoathecata > Suborder Filifera > Family Oceaniidae > Genus Turritopsis

Turritopsis dohrnii (Weismann, 1883)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Dendroclava Weismann, 1883

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Turritopsis*	McCrady, 1857	accepted genus name
*Dendroclava*	Weismann, 1883	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

French: méduse immortelle

Japanese: チチュウカイベニクラゲ

Literature

basis of record	Leloup, E. (1934). Note sur les hydropolypes de la rade de Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) [Note on the hydropolyps of the sea basin of Villifranche-sur-Mer (France)]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 10(31): 1-18.
redescription	Martell, L.; Piraino, S.; Gravili, C.; Boero, F. (2016). Life cycle, morphology and medusa ontogenesis of Turritopsis dohrnii(Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Italian Journal of Zoology. 1-10.
redescription	Schuchert, P. (2004). Revision of the European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): families Oceanidae and Pachycordylidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 111 2: 315-369.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Turritopsis dohrnii (Weismann, 1883). 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:151801

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Occurrence

Present

Absent

Doubtful

Native

Introduced

Naturalised

Invasive

Managed

No data

Environment

marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

IUCN:
Red List status CR 2006 This species is critically endangered and is considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

This species is critically endangered and is considered to be facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

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Last modified

2018-02-12 by Peter Schuchert

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