''Bougainvillia'' is a

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hydroids Hydroids are a life stage for most animals of the class Hydrozoa, small predators related to jellyfish. Some hydroids such as the freshwater '' Hydra'' are solitary, with the polyp attached directly to the substrate. When these produce buds ...

in the

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Bougainvilliidae Bougainvilliidae is a family of marine hydroids in the class Hydrozoa. Members of the family are found worldwide. There are sixteen accepted genera and about ninety-three species. Description Hydroids in this family can be solitary or colonial. ...

in the

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Hydrazoa. Members of the genus are characterised by having the marginal

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s of their

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e arranged in four bundles. Some species are solitary and others are colonial but all are filter feeders. They are found in the

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, having a circumpolar distribution, but some species also occur in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly travelling there as polyps on the hulls of ships.''Bougainvillia sp''.
Guide to the marine zooplankton of south east Australia. Retrieved 2011-12-02.

Species

The World Register of Marine Species lists the following

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: *'' Bougainvillia aberrans'' Calder, 1993 *'' Bougainvillia aurantiaca'' Bouillon, 1980 *'' Bougainvillia balei'' Stechow, 1924 *''

Bougainvillia bitentaculata ''Bougainvillia'' is a genus of hydroids in the family Bougainvilliidae in the class Hydrazoa. Members of the genus are characterised by having the marginal tentacles of their medusae arranged in four bundles. Some species are solitary and oth ...

'' Uchida, 1925 *'' Bougainvillia bougainvillei'' (Brandt, 1835) *''

Bougainvillia britannica ''Bougainvillia britannica'' is a marine invertebrate, a species of hydroid in the suborder Anthomedusae. Description The polyp grows singly from a stolon or has a few branches. It has long pedicels and medusa buds develop in clusters on branc ...

'' (Forbes, 1841) *'' Bougainvillia carolinensis'' (Mccrady, 1859) *'' Bougainvillia chenyapingii'' Xu, Huang & Guo, 2007 *''

Bougainvillia crassa ''Bougainvillia crassa'' is a marine invertebrate, a species of hydroid in the suborder Anthomedusae Anthoathecata, or the athecate hydroids, are an order of hydrozoans belonging to the phylum Cnidaria. A profusion of alternate scientific nam ...

'' Fraser, 1938 *'' Bougainvillia dimorpha'' Schuchert, 1996 *''

Bougainvillia frondosa ''Bougainvillia frondosa'' is a marine invertebrate, a species of hydroid in the suborder Anthomedusae Anthoathecata, or the athecate hydroids, are an order of hydrozoans belonging to the phylum Cnidaria. A profusion of alternate scientific n ...

'' Mayer, 1900 *'' Bougainvillia fulva'' Agassiz & Mayer, 1899 *'' Bougainvillia inaequalis'' Fraser, 1944 *'' Bougainvillia involuta'' Uchida, 1947 *'' Bougainvillia lamellata'' Xu, Huang & Liu, 2007 *'' Bougainvillia longicirra'' Stechow, 1914 *'' Bougainvillia longistyla'' Xu & Huang, 2004 *'' Bougainvillia macloviana'' Lesson, 1836 *'' Bougainvillia meinertiae'' Jäderholm, 1923 *'' Bougainvillia multitentaculata'' Förster, 1923 *'' Bougainvillia muscoides'' (Sars, 1846) *''

Bougainvillia muscus ''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 belon ...

'' (Allman, 1863) *'' Bougainvillia niobe'' Mayer, 1894 *''

Bougainvillia paraplatygaster ''Bougainvillia'' is a genus of hydroids in the family Bougainvilliidae in the class Hydrazoa. Members of the genus are characterised by having the marginal tentacles of their medusae arranged in four bundles. Some species are solitary and oth ...

'' Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991 *'' Bougainvillia platygaster'' (Haeckel, 1879) *'' Bougainvillia principis'' (Steenstrup, 1850) *''

Bougainvillia pyramidata ''Bougainvillia'' is a genus of hydroids in the family Bougainvilliidae in the class Hydrazoa. Members of the genus are characterised by having the marginal tentacles of their medusae arranged in four bundles. Some species are solitary and oth ...

'' (Forbes & Goodsir, 1853) *'' Bougainvillia reticulata'' Xu & Huang, 2006 *''

Bougainvillia rugosa ''Bougainvillia'' is a genus of hydroids in the family Bougainvilliidae in the class Hydrazoa. Members of the genus are characterised by having the marginal tentacles of their medusae arranged in four bundles. Some species are solitary and oth ...

'' Clarke, 1882 *''

Bougainvillia superciliaris ''Bougainvillia superciliaris'' is a marine invertebrate, a species of Anthoathecata, athecate Hydrozoa, hydroid. It belongs to the Bougainvilliidae, ''Bougainvillidae'' family. It can be confused with ''Rathkea octopunctata'', but differs from i ...

'' (L. Agassiz, 1849) *''

Bougainvillia vervoorti ''Bougainvillia'' is a genus of hydroids in the family Bougainvilliidae in the class Hydrazoa. Members of the genus are characterised by having the marginal tentacles of their medusae arranged in four bundles. Some species are solitary and oth ...

'' Bouillon, 1995

References

Bougainvilliidae Hydrozoan genera {{anthoathecata-stub