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Zancleidae Russell, 1953


Family Zancleidae

AphiaID

22781 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22781)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Typetaxon

Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856

Parent

Capitata

Synonymised names

Corynipteridae · unaccepted (invalid name)

Halocorynidae Picard, 1957 · unaccepted (synonym)

Orthocorynidae · unaccepted (invalid name)

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Genus Halocoryne Hadzi, 1917

  » Species Halocoryne epizoica Hadzi, 1917
  » Species Halocoryne frasca Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
  » Species Halocoryne orientalis (Browne, 1916)
  » Species Halocoryne pirainoid Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000

Genus Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856

Genus Zanclella Boero & Hewitt, 1992

  » Species Zanclella bryozoophila Boero & Hewitt, 1992
  » Species Zanclella diabolica Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
  » Species Zanclella glomboides Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000

Genus Acrochordium Meyen, 1834 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 (name suppressed by the ICZN (1994), opinion 1752)

» Species Acrochordium album Meyen, 1834 accepted as Zanclea alba (Meyen, 1834) (basionym)

Genus Gemellaria Allman, 1872 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 (synonym)
Genus Gemmaria McCrady, 1859 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 (unaccepted > junior homonym, invalid junior homonym of Gemmaria Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)

Genus Guentherella Weill, 1934 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 (synonym)
Genus Gymnocoryne Hincks, 1871 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 (synonym)

» Species Gymnocoryne coronata Hincks, 1871 accepted as Zanclea sessilis (Gosse, 1853) (synonym)

Genus Halocharis L. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 (synonym)

  » Species Halocharis incrustans Kramp, 1947 accepted as Rosalinda incrustans (Kramp, 1947) (basionym)
  » Species Halocharis indopacifica Stechow, 1919 accepted as Zanclea indopacifica (Stechow, 1919)
  » Species Halocharis spiralis A. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Zanclea spiralis (A. Agassiz, 1862) (basionym)

Genus Mnestra Krohn, 1853 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 (name suppressed by the ICZN (1994), opinion 1752)

» Species Mnestra parasites Krohn, 1853 accepted as Zanclea costata Gegenbaur, 1857 (synonym)

Genus Zanklea Riedl, 1963 accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 (misspelling)

Genus Ctenaria Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)

» Species Ctenaria ctenophora Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P. (2022). World Hydrozoa Database. Zancleidae Russell, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22781 on 2022-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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2009-04-28 06:22:10Z

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Schuchert, Peter

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basis of record Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. <i>Thalassia Salent. 24</i>: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Boero, F., Bouillon J., Gravili C., 2000. A survey of Zanclea, Halocoryne and Zanclella (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Anthomedusae, Zancleidae) with description of new species. Ital. J. Zool. 67 1: 93-124. [details] Available for editors

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Diagnosis Hydroids colonial, polyps issued from creeping stolons, sessile or with usually unbranched pedicel; polyps monomorphic or polymorphic; gastrozooids either with oral and aboral capitate tentacles, or with reduced capitate tentacles, or without tentacles; gonozooids and dactylozooids, when present, with capitate tentacles or these reduced to variable degrees. Perisarc enveloping hydranth pedicels and stolons a simple tube and not lamellar.
Medusa umbrella bell-shaped; four perradial exumbrellar nematocyst patches, these either oval, clavate, elongate or linear, usually containing stenoteles; mouth simple, circular, without oral tentacles; gonads usually as interradial pads on manubrium, rarely in a single mass encircling manubrium; four radial canals; marginal tentacles 0, 2 or 4, hollow, when present with numerous, long, stalked nematocytes (cnidophores) containing macrobasic euryteles; without ocelli.
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Japanese	スズフリクラゲ科	[details]

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Family Zancleidae

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