Thuiaria thuja bottlebrush hydroid

Thuiaria thuja is commonly referred to as bottlebrush hydroid. Difficulty in the aquarium: Experts only! Very hard to keep. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Scientific:: Thuiaria thuja
German:: Flaschenbürste, Hydrozoon
English:: Bottlebrush Hydroid

Category:: Jellyfish

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Leptothecata (Order) > Sertulariidae (Family) > Thuiaria (Genus) > thuja (Species)
Initial determination:: (Linnaeus, ), 1758

Occurrence:: the North Sea, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Arctic (North Polar Sea), East-Atlantic Ocean, Northern Mariana Islands, the Mediterranean Sea, West-Atlantic Ocean
Sea depth:: 2 - 800 Meter
Size:: 1.97" - 9.84" (5cm - 25cm)
Temperature:: 41 °F - 78.8 °F (5°C - 26°C)
Food:: Plankton
Difficulty:: Experts only! Very hard to keep
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Thuiaria abyssicola
Thuiaria acutiloba
Thuiaria allmani
Thuiaria alternans
Thuiaria alternitheca
Thuiaria arctica
Thuiaria articulata
Hydrozoen
Thuiaria bidentata
Thuiaria breitfussi
Thuiaria carica
Thuiaria cedrina
Thuiaria constans
Thuiaria cornigera
Thuiaria coronifera
Thuiaria cupressoides
Thuiaria cylindrica
Thuiaria deberki
Thuiaria decemserialis
Thuiaria diffusa
Thuiaria excepticea
Thuiaria gonorhiza
Thuiaria hartlaubi
Thuiaria hippuris
Thuiaria insociabilis
Thuiaria invicea
Thuiaria involuta
Thuiaria kudelini
Thuiaria kurilae
Thuiaria laxa
Thuiaria lebedi
Thuiaria mereschkowskii
Thuiaria nivea
Thuiaria obsoleta
Thuiaria ochotensis
Thuiaria operculata
Thuiaria pinaster
Thuiaria pinna
Thuiaria plumiformis
Thuiaria plumularioides
Thuiaria purpurea
Thuiaria sachalini
Thuiaria stelleri
Thuiaria subthuja
Thuiaria tetrastriata
Thuiaria thuja
Flaschenbürste, Hydrozoon
Thuiaria trilateralis
Thuiaria triserialis
Thuiaria uschakovi
Thuiaria wulfiusi
Thuiaria zachsi

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2013-12-19 20:18:10
Last edit:: 2020-04-02 19:07:36

Info

Thuiaria thuja (Linnaeus, 1758)

The bottlebrush hydroid colony is 5-25 cm high.Its cylindrical brush shape.Thuiaria thuja is present on hard substrata.

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) >Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) >Hydrozoonolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) >Sertulariidae (Family) > Thuiaria (Genus)

External links

Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Homepage Jim Greenfield (British Marine Life) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Homepage von Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
MarLIN – The Marine Life Information Network (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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Thuiaria thuja © Anne Frijsinger & Mat Vestjens, Holland,Bild aus der Adria

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