Anthoathecata, Cornelius, 1992

Galea, Horia R. & Maggioni, Davide, 2024, On some tropical hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), with descriptions of four new species, Zootaxa 5428 (1), pp. 1-57 : 37

Anthoathecata : Aplanulata: Tubulariidae

Ectopleura viridis ( Pictet, 1893) is sister to all other Ectopleura species included in the analyses, but the nodal support of the genus based on 16S rRNA data is low ( Fig. 24A ).

Of note, sequences obtained from specimens of E. dumortierii ( Van Beneden, 1844) from Chile ( Galea 2007: 31) and France (Atlantic Ocean) are here demonstrated to belong to different species, not forming a monophyletic clade and showing a high genetic distance of 12.7% between them.

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FIGURE 24. Phylogenetic hypotheses of the families Tubulariidae (A), Cladocorynidae (B) and Sphaerocorynidae (C) based on the 16S rRNA region. Numbers at nodes represent BPP and MLBS, respectively.