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

Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Perigonymus*		orthographic variant
*Atractylis*	Wright, 1858	synonym
*Hippocrene*	Brandt, 1835	synonym
*Lizusa*	Haeckel, 1879	synonym
*Margelis*	Steenstrup, 1850	synonym
*Perigonimus*	M. Sars, 1846	synonym

Children

Bougainvillia britannica (Forbes, 1841)
Bougainvillia macloviana Lesson, 1830
Bougainvillia multicilia (Haeckel, 1879)
Bougainvillia muscoides (Sars, 1846)
Bougainvillia muscus (Allman, 1863)
Bougainvillia principis (Steenstrup, 1850)
Bougainvillia pyramidata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1853)
Bougainvillia rugosa Clarke, 1882
Bougainvillia superciliaris (L. Agassiz, 1849)
Perigonimus georginae Hadzi, 1913

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: エダクラゲ属 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Russian: Бугенвиллия

Literature

original description	Lesson, R.P. (1830). Voyage autour du monde : exécuté par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825, par M. L.I. Duperrey. Zoologie 2,. Paris, 1826-1830. (vol. 2, pt 2, 2e division, 1830).
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	Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. Thalassia Salent. 24: 47-296
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	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Nogueira M., Rodriguez C. S., Mianzan, H., Haddad M. A., Genzano G. (2013). Description of a new hydromedusa from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean, Bougainvillia pagesi sp. nov. Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Anthoathecata). Marine Ecology. 34: 113-122.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830. 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:117015

Dr. Wim Vervoort. Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/d4958928-f326-4577-8243-057538077bcd