# The writer lists the hydroids Plumularia campanula and Plumularia setaceoides with Williamstown among their localities.

> Cite as: PLOT record c/QG75-MQ v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1888), reported by source

- **Address:** c/QG75-MQ, version 1 of 1 (https://www.plot.eco/c/QG75-MQ)
- **Value:** Plumularia campanula, Busk (2, 7).—Portland ; Williamstown; Bass Strait. \[P. lawa, Allman (1) ; P. Torresia, Von Lendenfeld (4). \] Plumularia Buskiz, Bale (2).—Griffiths Point. Plumularia setaceoides, Bale (2, 7).—Williamstown ; Queenscliff ; Portland. (Historical passage)
- **About:** Williamstown
- **Kind:** Reported by source
- **Who said it:** Reported by community
- **Period:** 1888
- **Checked:** Reviewed (step 3 of 4): PLOT checked the claim against its source. This is not independent verification. Checked by a person.
- **Open questions:** None open
- **Source:** The Victorian naturalist, v.5 (1888-1889) (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria), p. 133, victoriannatural518881889fiel, leaf 177, printed page 133 <https://archive.org/details/victoriannatural518881889fiel>
- **The snippet in PLOT:** <https://www.plot.eco/s/H8SY-X6?snippet=ce66e765-8102-42bd-8ad3-61ac1de408c4>
- **How they know:** accounts-core@0.1.0: screen\_passage@1, extract\_passage@1 (claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session)); locator victoriannatural518881889fiel, leaf 177, printed page 133
- **Limitations:** A writer's account: context and a reason to look again, never a measurement. The writer's words for the place are kept; silence elsewhere is not absence.
- **Editions:** october-26th-release
- **How we found this:** Found under sourcing protocol accounts-core@0.1.0, for the question "Species written about here", in historical\_archives. Screened in on an AI proposal (Claude Opus 5.5 (AI), for review). Extracted with claude-opus-5-5 (Claude Code session), prompt extract\_passage@1; a person reviewed it before publication.
  - Query: Williamstown \| Williams Town \| Williams-town \| Point Gellibrand \| Gellibrand's Point \| Gellibrand Point \| Jawbone \| Greenwich Bay in archive.org/victoriannatural518881889fiel (archive.org OCR text, local full-text match)
  - Screening: include (meets criteria): Hydroid species listed with Williamstown as a locality.

## History
- Version 1 (this version): first published version

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Machine-readable: https://www.plot.eco/c/QG75-MQ.json
Cite as: PLOT record c/QG75-MQ v1, Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria (1888), reported by source