WoRMS taxon details
Tiarannidae Russell, 1940
AphiaID: 22767
AphiaID: 22767
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Leptothecata | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Russell, F.S., 1940. On the nematocysts of hydromedusae. III. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 24 : 515-523. page(s): 518 [details] 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 Chromatonema Fewkes, 1882 Genus Margalefia Pagès, Bouillon & Gili, 1991 Genus Modeeria Forbes, 1848 Genus Stegolaria Stechow, 1913 Genus Stegopoma Genus Moderia accepted as Modeeria Forbes, 1848 Genus Tiaranna Hartlaub, 1913 accepted as Modeeria Forbes, 1848 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Hydroid colony stolonal or erect; hydrotheca pedicellate or sessile, deep, asymmetric-tubular; operculum formed by two pleated membranes which meet one another like a gabled roof; gonothecae usually resembling hydrothecae, but larger; gonophores as free medusae or fixed sporosacs. Medusa without apical projection, no gastric peduncle; with large, cruciform stomach with perradial basal lobes; mouth with four simple or crenulated lips; four simple radial canals; gonads folded on adradial walls of manubrium and or on perradial manubrial pouches; marginal tentacles numerous, hollow; hollow cordyli-like structures bearing nematocysts; no ocelli. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22767 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Tiarannidae Russell, 1940. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22767 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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