Genus Monotheca Nutting, 1900

Museums

Regional Maps

• Monotheca Nutting, C.C. 1900. American hydroids. Part I. The Plumularidae. Special Bulletin. United States National Museum 1-285, pls 1-34.

  Type species:

   Monotheca margaretta Nutting, 1900 by original designation.
• Monothecella Stechow, E. 1923. Neue Hydroiden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, nebst Bemerkungen über einige andre Formen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 56: 1-20.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watson, J.E. 2011. Review of the genus Monotheca (Hydrozoa: Leptolida) from Australia with description of a new species and a note on Monothecella Stechow, 1923. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68: 71-91

Introduction

WoRMS treats Monotheca as a synonym of Plumularia, noting that more molecular work is needed to confirm Monotheca as a vakud genus (at 30 July 2018).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

History of changes