Hydrozoa taxon details

Octocannoididae Bouillon, Boero & Seghers, 1991

266958  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266958)

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  1. Genus Octocannoides Menon, 1932
  2. Genus Stylogastria Xu, Huang & Guo, 2021
  3. Genus Pedunculus Xu, Huang & Guo, 2019 accepted as Stylogastria Xu, Huang & Guo, 2021 (invalid junior homonym of Pedunculus Townes, 1969 [Insecta])
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. & Seghers, G. (1991). Notes additionelles sur les méduses de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) IV. Additional notes on the medusae of Papua New Guinea (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): IV. <em>Cah. Biol. mar.</em> 32(3): 387-411.
page(s): 406 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Octocannoididae Bouillon, Boero & Seghers, 1991. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php/api-docs/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266958 on 2024-03-28
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2008-01-09 13:56:12Z
created
2009-06-15 18:10:07Z
changed
2013-05-21 11:03:14Z
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original description Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. & Seghers, G. (1991). Notes additionelles sur les méduses de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) IV. Additional notes on the medusae of Papua New Guinea (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): IV. <em>Cah. Biol. mar.</em> 32(3): 387-411.
page(s): 406 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]   
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Diagnosis 
Medusa with eight simple radial canals; eight normal marginal tentacles and16-32 short, club-shaped tentaculae, all marginal structures with black pigmented spots; manubrium short; mouth with eight simple lips; no gastric peduncle and excretory papillae; gonads along radial canals, split into two lateral halves; with numerous statocysts; no ocelli; no cirri. Hydroid phase unknown.  [details]