Hydrozoa taxon details

Kirchenpaueriidae Stechow, 1921

22796  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22796)

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marine, fresh, terrestrial
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Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Kirchenpaueriidae Stechow, 1921. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22796 on 2024-03-29
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2009-05-25 06:13:45Z
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2013-05-21 11:03:14Z
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2013-06-02 13:27:45Z
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2016-06-03 11:41:57Z
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context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS[details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
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Diagnosis Colony either with erect, branched or unbranched hydrocaulus, monosiphonic or polysiphonic or stolonal (Ophinella); issued from a creeping hydrorhiza; hydrocladia alternate, arising in polysiphonic hydrocauli from a single dominant axial tube; hydrothecae small, occurring only on hydrocladia, with or without marginal cusps, with or without an abcauline intrathecal septum, adnate or not; nematophores with nematothecae often rudimentary or occurring as naked sarcostyles; when present, nematothecae simple, typically one-chambered although two-chambered in some species, not fused to hydrothecae; paired lateral nematophores and nematothecae absent; gonophores as fixed sporosacs; gonotheca solitary, lacking nematothecae, on stem or hydrocladia, exceptionally on hydrorhiza (Pycnotheca). [details]