Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Bernal, M. C., Cairns, S. D., Penchaszadeh, P. E. & Lauretta, D., 2021, Stylasterids (Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from Mar del Plata submarine canyon and adjacent area (southwestern Atlantic), with a key to the species off Argentina, Zootaxa 4969 (3), pp. 401-452 : 12

Genus Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Type species. Crypthelia pudica Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Included species. Crypthelia affinis Moseley ; C. balia Hickson & England; C. boucheti Cairns ; C. clausa Broch ; C. cassiculata Cairns ; C. crassa Cairns ; C. crenata Cairns ; C. cryptotrema Zibrowius ; C. curvata Cairns ; C. cymas Cairns ; C. dactylopoma Cairns ; C. defensa Cairns ; C. eueides Cairns ; C. deforgesi Cairns ; C. floridana Cairns ; C. formosa Cairns ; C. fragilis Cairns ; C. gigantea Fisher ; C. glossopoma Cairns ; C. glebulenta Cairns ; C. ingens † Cairns ; C. insolita Cairns ; C. jenniferae Cairns ; C. japonica (Milne Edwards & Haime) ; C. kelleyi Cairns ; C. lacunosa Cairns ; C. laevigata Cairns ; C. medioatlantica Zibrowius & Cairns ; C. micropoma Cairns ; C. modesta Cairns ; C. papillosa Cairns ; C. parapolypoma Cairns ; C. peircei Pourtalès ; C. peteri Cairns ; C. platypoma (Hickson & England); C. polypoma Cairns ; C. pudica Milne Edwards & Haime ; C. ramosa (Hickson & England); C. reticulata Cairns ; C. robusta Cairns ; C. sinuosa Cairns ; C. spiralis Cairns ; C. stenopoma (Hickson & England); C. tenuiseptata Cairns ; C. trophostega Fisher ; C. variegata Cairns ; C. vascomarquesi Zibrowius & Cairns ; C. viridis Cairns ; C. vetusta † Wells ; C. zibrowii † Cairns.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan, except for off continental Antarctica, 85–2789 m (see Cairns 2015). New record off Mar del Plata, 877–1398 m.

Diagnosis. See Cairns 2015.