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Similiclavidae Calder, Choong & McDaniel, 2015

870256  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:870256)

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Calder, D. R.; Choong, H. H. C.; McDaniel, N. (2015). Similiclava nivea (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Similiclavidae): a new family, genus and species of athecate hydroid from the Pacific coast of North America. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 49(13-14): 735-753., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2014.979261
page(s): 3 [details]   
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Similiclavidae Calder, Choong & McDaniel, 2015. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870256 on 2024-03-29
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original description Calder, D. R.; Choong, H. H. C.; McDaniel, N. (2015). Similiclava nivea (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Similiclavidae): a new family, genus and species of athecate hydroid from the Pacific coast of North America. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 49(13-14): 735-753., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2014.979261
page(s): 3 [details]   
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Diagnosis Filiferan hydroids with strictly stolonal colonies. Hydrorhiza consisting of a creeping stolon with branches and anastomoses, becoming a dense network; coenosarcal tubes of stolon encased in a sheath of perisarc, not encrusting, or calcareous or covered with naked coenosarc. Hydrorhizal spines and nematophores absent. Zooids monomorphic, consisting of sessile hydranths encased basally in a short, wrinkled sheath of perisarc, otherwise naked. Hydranths of a colony tending to be separated rather than clustered in a dense clump, sessile, highly contractile, elongate and nearly cylindrical when extended, with a slight to distinct bulbous area below a somewhat constricted neck region, bulbous again distally at insertion of tentacles; without carbonate granules in the gastrodermis; tentacles filiform, in two very closely-placed whorls, appearing as a single whorl in contracted hydranths; hypostome dome-shaped. Gonophores fixed and rounded sporosacs without traces of radial canals, ring canal or tentacles, borne on unmodified hydranths, arising in grape-like clusters on hydranth column from a distal band beneath tentacular whorl.  [details]