Sertularia unguiculata Sea Fir, Sea Fern, Hydroid

Sertularia unguiculatais commonly referred to as Sea Fir, Sea Fern, Hydroid. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping.

Javier Couper (Predomalpha), New Zealand

Sertularia unguiculata, Auckland, New Zealand 2022

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lexID:: 15165
AphiaID:: 292384

Scientific:: Sertularia unguiculata
German:: Nesselfarn
English:: Sea Fir, Sea Fern, Hydroid

Category:: Jellyfish

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Leptothecata (Order) > Sertulariidae (Family) > Sertularia (Genus) > unguiculata (Species)
Initial determination:: Busk, 1852

Occurrence:: Australia, New Zealand, South-Pazific, Tasmania (Australia)
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 10 - 60 Meter
Size:: up to 2.76" (7 cm)
Food:: Carnivore, Zooplankton
Difficulty:: Not suitable for aquarium keeping
Offspring:: None

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Sertularia albimaris
Sertularia argentea
Sertularia australis
Sertularia borneensis
Sertularia brashnikowi
Sertularia brunnea
Sertularia camtschatika
Sertularia ceylonensis
Sertularia conferta
Sertularia converrucosa
Sertularia cupressina
Zypressenmoos, Seemoos
Sertularia cupressoides
Sertularia distans
Sertularia dohrni
Sertularia ephemera
Sertularia fabricii
Sertularia fissa
Sertularia flexilis
Sertularia flowersi
Sertularia gracilis
Sertularia gracillima
Sertularia hattorii
Sertularia heteroclada
Sertularia humilis
Sertularia intermedia
Sertularia latiuscula
Sertularia linkoi
Sertularia littoralis
Sertularia loculosa
Sertularia maccallumi
Sertularia macrocarpa
Sertularia malayensis
Sertularia marginata
Sertularia mediterranea
Sertularia mertoni
Sertularia mirabilis
Sertularia nasonovi
Sertularia notabilis
Sertularia nuttingi
Sertularia orthogonalis
Sertularia perpusilla
Sertularia plumosa
Sertularia robusta
Sertularia rugosissima
Sertularia schmidti
Sertularia similis
Sertularia simplex
Sertularia snyderi
Sertularia stabilis
Sertularia staurotheca
Sertularia suensoni
Sertularia tatarica
Sertularia tenera
Sertularia tenuis
Sertularia tolli
Sertularia tongensis
Sertularia trigonostoma
Sertularia tumida
Sertularia turbinata
Sertularia unguiculata
Nesselfarn
Sertularia vervoorti
Sertularia xuelongi

More related species in this lexicon:

Sertularia sp.01
Seemoos

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2022-09-11 13:38:58
Last edit:: 2022-09-11 21:46:39

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Sertularia unguiculata Busk, 1852

Hydrozoons are a life stage for most animals of the class Hydrozoa, small predators related to jellyfish.

Sertularia is a genus of hydroids in the family Sertulariidae.

Synonymised names:
Amphisbetia unguiculata (Busk, 1852) · unaccepted

External links

The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Leptothecata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) (Thecate Hydroids), Seite 191 (en). Abgerufen am 11.09.2022.
Wikipedia (de). Abgerufen am 11.09.2022.
Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 11.09.2022.
WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 11.09.2022.

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