Wine-glass Hydroids
Obelia
Obelia is a genus in the class Hydrozoa, which consists of mainly marine and some freshwater animal species and have both the polyp and medusa stages in their life cycle. The genus belongs to the phylum Cnidaria, which are all aquatic and mainly marine organisms that are relatively simple in structure. It is also called sea fur.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Carl Linnaeus — Hortus Cliffortianus (1737)
Carl Linnaeus · 1737 · p.459
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.70
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 14)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.134
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.687
History of the Plants of New Spain, Volume 3
Francisco Hernández (1517-1587) · 1946 · p.54
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Obelia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49536.