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Plumulariidae Agassiz, 1862 
AphiaID: 1613

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) > Plumularioidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Plumularioidea
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 Callicarpa Fewkes, 1881
Genus Cladacanthella Calder, 1997
Genus Dentitheca Stechow, 1919
Genus Hippurella Allman, 1877
Genus Nemertesia Lamouroux, 1812
Genus Plumularia Lamarck, 1816
Genus Polyplumaria Sars, 1874
Genus Pseudoplumaria Ramil & Vervoort, 1992
Genus Sibogella Billard, 1911

Genus Antennularia Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Nemertesia Lamouroux, 1812
Genus Lytocarpus Allman, 1883 accepted as Macrorhynchia Kirchenpauer, 1872
Genus Monotheca Nutting, 1900 accepted as Plumularia Lamarck, 1816
Genus Monothecella Stechow, 1923 accepted as Plumularia Lamarck, 1816
Genus Polynemertesia Broch, 1918 accepted as Polyplumaria Sars, 1874
Genus Polyplumularia accepted as Polyplumaria Sars, 1874
Genus Stechowia Nutting, 1927 accepted as Sibogella Billard, 1911
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
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Notes  Diagnosis: Colonies erect, monosiphonic or polysiphonic, arising from creeping, rootlike, or disc-shaped hydrorhiza; hydrocauli branched or unbranched, hydrocladia alternate, opposite or in verticils, arising in polysiphonic hydrocauli from a single axial tube; hydrothecae typically small, uniseriate, usually at least partially adnate, occurring only on hydrocladia, with or without marginal cusps; nematophores with well developed nematothecae, not as naked sarcostyles; all nematothecae (axillar, cauline or hydrothecal) usually two-chambered (bithalamic) and movable, a minimum of three nematothecae adjacent to hydrothecae, one mesial inferior and a pair of lateral ones; gonophores as fixed sporosacs, exceptionally as swimming gonophores; gonothecae solitary, without nematothecae; with or without phylactocarps. [details]

Spelling: Spelling by Agassiz (1862: 358) was Plumularidae, Hincks (1868) introduced the correct spelling Plumulariidae. [details]
Image 
Family Plumulariidae: typical forms
Family Plumulariidae: typical forms
added on 2013-06-14 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-14 10:45:23
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1613
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2011-03-11 07:10:22Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
2013-05-21 11:03:14Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
2013-06-02 13:27:45Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Plumulariidae Agassiz, 1862. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1613 on 2013-06-19
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