Bougainvillia polyp

Bougainvillia muscus

Classification

Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Anthoathecata
Family: Bougainvilliidae

Bougainvillia muscus is a marine invertebrate, a species of hydroid in the suborder Anthomedusae. Taxonomy In 1844, van Beneden named the hydroid form of this species as Eudendrium ramosum. Strethill Wright showed that it did not belong in the genus Eudendrium and placed it in Atractylis.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Belgium · 19United Kingdom · 13

Sources and credits

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Bougainvillia polyp

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