Deep-Sea taxon details
original description
Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. [details] Available for editors
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 Medusa manubrium short; no gastric peduncle; no excretory pores; four simple radial canals; marginal tentacles hollow, with lateral cirri; no marginal cirri; gonads on radial canals, not reaching manubrium; 4, 8, 12 or more statocysts when adult; no ocelli.
Hydroid colony stolonal or erect sympodial; hydrotheca pedicellate, elongate, everted-conical to bell-shaped, with diaphragm; operculum conical, formed either by many triangular plates in embayments of hydrothecal margin and demarcated from hydrothecal wall by crease line, or pleated continuation of the hydrothecal wall; hydrothecae in old specimens often reduced to a collar-shaped sheath around hydranth base; with or without intertentacular web; gonophores free medusae, gonothecae peduncled. [details]
Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon [details]
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