''Ectopleura'' is a
genus
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of
hydrozoa
Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; ) are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water. The colonies of the colonial species can be large, and in some cases the specializ ...
ns in the
family
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Tubulariidae
Tubulariidae is a family of hydroid cnidarians. For long placed in a presumed superfamily or infraorder Tubulariida of suborder Capitata, they are actually close relatives of the Hydridae and are now united with these and a number of relatives ...
.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
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Ectopleura americana'' Peterson, 1990
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Ectopleura antarctica'' (Billard, 1914)
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Ectopleura apicisacciformis'' Xu, Huang & Guo, 2007
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Ectopleura atentaculata'' Xu & Huang, 2006
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Ectopleura attenoides'' (Coughtrey, 1876)
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Ectopleura bethae'' (Warren, 1908)
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Ectopleura crassocanalis'' Huang, Xu & Guo, 2011
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Ectopleura crocea'' (Agassiz, 1862)
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Ectopleura dumortierii'' (Van Beneden, 1844)
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Ectopleura elongata'' Lin, Xu, Huang & Wang, 2010
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Ectopleura exxonia'' (Watson, 1978)
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Ectopleura gemmifera'' Xu, Huang & Guo, 2007
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Ectopleura grandis'' Fraser, 1944
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Ectopleura guangdongensis'' Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991
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Ectopleura indica'' Petersen, 1990
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Ectopleura integra'' (Fraser, 1938)
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Ectopleura japonica'' (Hirohito, 1988)
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Ectopleura larynx
''Ectopleura larynx'', or ringed tubularia, is a hydroid in the family Tubulariidae.
Distribution
''Ectopleura larynx'' is found throughout the British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the ...
'' (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
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Ectopleura latitaeniata'' Xu & Zhang, 1978
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Ectopleura marina'' (Torrey, 1902)
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Ectopleura mayeri'' Petersen, 1990
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Ectopleura media'' Fraser, 1948
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Ectopleura minerva'' Mayer, 1900
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Ectopleura multicirrata'' Schuchert, 1996
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Ectopleura obypa'' Migotto & Marques, 1999
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Ectopleura prolifica'' Hargitt, 1908
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Ectopleura radiata'' (Uchida, 1937)
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Ectopleura sacculifera'' Kramp, 1957
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Ectopleura triangularis'' Lin, Xu, Huang & Wang, 2010
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Ectopleura venusta'' (Yamada, 1950)
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Ectopleura viridis'' (Pictet, 1893)
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Ectopleura wrighti'' Petersen, 1979
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Ectopleura xiamenensis'' Zhang & Lin, 1984
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Ectopleura xuxuanii'' Xu, Huang & Guo, 2007
References
Tubulariidae
Hydrozoan genera
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