Hydrozoa taxon details

Ptilocodium Coward, 1909

267794  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267794)

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Coward, W.E., 1909. On Ptilocodium repens , a new gymnoblastic hydroid epizoic on a pennatulid. Versl. wis.-en natuurk. Afd. K. Akad. Wet. Amst. 17 2: 729-735.
page(s): 635 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Ptilocodium Coward, 1909. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267794 on 2024-03-28
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original description Coward, W.E., 1909. On Ptilocodium repens , a new gymnoblastic hydroid epizoic on a pennatulid. Versl. wis.-en natuurk. Afd. K. Akad. Wet. Amst. 17 2: 729-735.
page(s): 635 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

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 Hydroids sessile, hydrorhiza stolonal, reticular or encrusting and covered by naked coenosarc; hydranths polymorphic; gastrozooid without tentacles; dactylozooids with four or more capitate tentacles, sometimes filiform; gonophores on gonozooids or gastro-gonozooids; reproduction by fixed sporosacs, eumedusoids or free medusae. Medusa umbrella more or less bell-shaped; with or without radial exumbrellar furrows; centripetal tracks or exumbrellar rows of refringent spots; with marginal nematocyst ring; marginal tentacles absent or present, solid and nematocysts concentrated at tips; four radial canals and circular canal; manubrium tubular or bottle-shaped, with mouth arms with terminal nematocyst clusters, gonads adradial or interradial.  [details]