Hydrozoa taxon details
Milleporidae Fleming, 1828
196235 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196235)
accepted
Family
Milleporadae Fleming, 1828 · unaccepted (incorrect formation of family name)
Milleporina Ehrenberg, 1831 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
- Genus Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
- Genus Palmipora de Blainville, 1834 accepted as Millepora Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Milleporadae Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 528 [details]
page(s): 528 [details]
Hydrozoa (2025). Milleporidae Fleming, 1828. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196235 on 2025-04-20
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(of Milleporadae Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 528 [details]
original description (of Milleporina Ehrenberg, 1831) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1831). Animalia evertebrata. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum quae ex itineribus Lybiam Aegyptum Nubiam Dongalam Syriam Arabiam et Habessinian. Pars Zoologica. <em>Abhandlungen der deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften.</em> 4:(unpaginated)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48517135
note: unpaginated [details]
context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
page(s): 528 [details]
original description (of Milleporina Ehrenberg, 1831) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1831). Animalia evertebrata. Symbolae physicae seu icones et descriptiones naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum quae ex itineribus Lybiam Aegyptum Nubiam Dongalam Syriam Arabiam et Habessinian. Pars Zoologica. <em>Abhandlungen der deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften.</em> 4:(unpaginated)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48517135
note: unpaginated [details]
context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Hydroid colony forming massive, calcareous exoskeletons (= coenosteum) of varied shape; coenosteum with an internal complex network of coenosarcal tubes and covered externally by a thin ectodermal layer, coenosteal surface perforated by pores; margins of pores not elevated; large gastropores surrounded by smaller dactylopores, forming indistinct cyclosystems; polyps polymorphic; gastrozooids relatively short and stout, with an oral whorl of four to seven short capitate tentacles, arising from gastropores; dactylozooids long, slender, mouthless, with scattered capitate tentacles, arising from dactylopores; cnidome with stenoteles and macrobasic mastigophores; gonophores arising from coenosarc within chambers embedded entirely in the coenosteum. Medusa free swimming eumedusoids with exumbrellar nematocyst patches, radial and circular canals present, without tentacles and sense organs; gonads occupying the place of an indistinct manubrium. [details]
