WoRMS taxon details
Thyroscyphidae Stechow, 1920
233224 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:233224)
accepted
Family
Thyroscyphinae Stechow, 1920 · unaccepted (accepted as family )
Genus Parascyphus Ritchie, 1911
Genus Sertularelloides Leloup, 1937
Genus Symmetroscyphus Calder, 1986
Genus Thyroscyphoides Naumov, 1955
Genus Thyroscyphus Allman, 1877
Genus Tuberocaulus Galea, 2019
Genus Uniscyphus Millard, 1977
Subfamily Thyroscyphinae Stechow, 1920 accepted as Thyroscyphidae Stechow, 1920 (accepted as family )
Genus Sertularelloides Leloup, 1937
Genus Symmetroscyphus Calder, 1986
Genus Thyroscyphoides Naumov, 1955
Genus Thyroscyphus Allman, 1877
Genus Tuberocaulus Galea, 2019
Genus Uniscyphus Millard, 1977
Subfamily Thyroscyphinae Stechow, 1920 accepted as Thyroscyphidae Stechow, 1920 (accepted as family )
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Schuchert, P. (2023). World Hydrozoa Database. Thyroscyphidae Stechow, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=233224 on 2023-06-04
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original description
(of Thyroscyphinae Stechow, 1920) Stechow, E. (1920). Neue Ergebnisse auf dem Gebiete der Hydroidenforschung. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft für Morphologie und Physiologie in München.</em> 31: 9-45.
page(s): 16; note: as subfamily [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 16; note: as subfamily [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Diagnosis Colony forming upright shoots or stolonal, arising from a creeping hydrorhiza, commonly monopodial, with terminal growing points; hydrothecae radially to bilaterally symmetrical, pedicellate, or both sessile and pedicellate in the same colony, or sessile but adnate only at diaphragm level (?); hydrothecal margin either entire or with 2 to 4 teeth; operculum of one, 3 or 4 valves and either persistent or shed early; annular perisarcal diaphragm usually present; hydranths with mantle (ectodermal lamella) and a basal annular ectodermal fold; cnidome: microbasic and macrobasic mastigophores; gonophores as fixed sporosacs. [details]
