Hydrozoa taxon details
Orchistoma Haeckel, 1879
117176 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117176)
accepted
Genus
Mesonema pileus Lesson, 1843 accepted as Orchistoma pileus (Lesson, 1843) (type by subsequent designation)
Tetracannota Mayer, 1900 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Orchistoma manam Bouillon, 1984
- Species Orchistoma mauropoda Gershwin, Zeidler & Davie, 2010
- Species Orchistoma nubiae Bouillon, 1984
- Species Orchistoma pileus (Lesson, 1843)
- Species Orchistoma agariciforme Keller, 1884 accepted as Orchistoma pileus (Lesson, 1843) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Orchistoma collapsum (Mayer, 1900) accepted as Orchistoma pileus (Lesson, 1843) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Orchistoma graeffei Neppi & Stiasny, 1911 accepted as Orchistomella graeffei (Neppi & Stiasny, 1911) (original combination)
- Species Orchistoma steenstrupii Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Orchistoma pileus (Lesson, 1843) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Orchistoma tentaculata Mayer, 1900 accepted as Orchistomella tentaculata (Mayer, 1900) (original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 138 [details]
page(s): 138 [details]
Schuchert, P. (2021). World Hydrozoa Database. Orchistoma Haeckel, 1879. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa.../aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117176 on 2024-04-19
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2006-09-26 06:56:50Z
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Martinez, Olga
original description
Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 138 [details]
original description (of Tetracannota Mayer, 1900) Mayer, A. G. (1900). Some medusae from the Tortugas, Florida. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard.</em> 37: 13-82, pls 1-44., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4271669
page(s): 46 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 138 [details]
original description (of Tetracannota Mayer, 1900) Mayer, A. G. (1900). Some medusae from the Tortugas, Florida. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard.</em> 37: 13-82, pls 1-44., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4271669
page(s): 46 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Diagnosis With the characteristics of the family.
Medusa with very short manubrium on large gastric peduncle; mouth with 8-30 sinuous or crenulated folds; eight or more radial canals, simple, ramified, or in clusters of four; up to 64 marginal tentacles, laterally compressed; no marginal cirri, but in intertentacular space filiform, tentaculiform structures devoid of marginal bulbs, not in contact with circular canal; gonads usually on proximal parts of radial canals; numerous (up to 800) adaxial ocelli; without statocysts, without cordyli, without excretory pores or papillae.
Hydroid phase unknown. [details]
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