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 )
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Schuchert, P. (2024). 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 2024-04-18
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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]
