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.