WoRMS taxon details
Aequoreidae Eschscholtz, 1829
AphiaID: 13553
AphiaID: 13553
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Leptothecata | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. Thalassia Salent. 24: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Genus Aldersladia Gershwin, 2006 Genus Gangliostoma Xu, 1983 Genus Rhacostoma L. Agassiz, 1850 Genus Tarracodiscus Romero, Rogers & Gershwin, 2011 † Genus Zygocanna Haeckel, 1879 Genus Mesonema Péron & Lesueur, 1810 accepted as Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 Genus Zigocanna accepted as Zygocanna Haeckel, 1879 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Hydroid colony stolonal or sparingly branched; hydrotheca delicate, tubular, elongated, radially symmetrical, operculum a continuation of hydrothecal wall, composed of several long, triangular flaps, not delimited by crease-line; in older colonies operculum generally lost and hydrotheca reduced to a perisarcal collar; hydranth with intertentacular web, tentacles amphicoronate, moniliform-like when completely extended; gonotheca large, pedicellate, cylindrical, giving rise to one or two medusae. Medusa with wide, circular manubrium; usually no gastric peduncle; numerous simple or branched radial canals; gonads on radial canals, separated from manubrium; marginal tentacles hollow; usually with excretory pores or papillae on bulbs; no marginal or lateral cirri; statocysts closed; no ocelli. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:13553 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Aequoreidae Eschscholtz, 1829. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=13553 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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