Species Eleutheria dichotoma Quatrefages, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eleutheria dichotoma Quatrefages, A.de 1842. Mémoire sur l'Eleuthérie dichotome (Eleutheria dichotoma A. de Q.). nouveau genre de rayonnés, voisin des hydres. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 15: 168–170 [168-170].

 

Introduction

Eleutheria dichotoma is described as a crawling hydrozoan medusa. Described from plankton samples at Queenscliff, Victoria (Emlet & Watson, 2015), and from coastal, intertidal habitat in New South Wales (Fraser et al., 2006).

Emlet & Watson (2015) first recorded it from Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from Europe.

Distribution References

General References

Emlet, R. & Watson, J. 2015. First record of the crawling medusa 'Eleutheria dichotoma' from Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 132(2): 48-50 [Available online at ]

Fraser, C., Capa, M. & Schuchert, P. 2006. European hydromedusa Eleutheria dichotoma (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthomedusae) found at high densities in New South Wales, Australia: distribution, biology and habitat. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 86: 699–703

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Sep-2018	HYDROZOA Owen, 1843	30-Jan-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Narissa Bax
05-Aug-2022		17-Apr-2012	MOVED
		27-Feb-2012	ADDED