Deep-Sea taxon details
Narcomedusae
16349 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:16349)
Haeckel, 1879
accepted
Order
Family Aeginidae Gegenbaur, 1857
Family Cuninidae Bigelow, 1913
Family Solmarisidae Haeckel, 1879
Family Solmundaeginidae Lindsay, Bentlage & Collins, 2017
Family Tetraplatiidae Collins et al., 2008
Family Cuninidae Bigelow, 1913
Family Solmarisidae Haeckel, 1879
Family Solmundaeginidae Lindsay, Bentlage & Collins, 2017
Family Tetraplatiidae Collins et al., 2008
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 299 [details]
page(s): 299 [details]
Schuchert, P. (2021). World Hydrozoa Database. Narcomedusae. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2021) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: http://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=16349 on 2021-11-28
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2021). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Narcomedusae. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=16349 on 2021-11-28
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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original description
Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578
page(s): 299 [details]
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]
page(s): 299 [details]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Hydrozoa without polyp stage or only very reduced and modified polyp stage.
Meduse with bell composed of a lens-shaped mass of jelly and much thinner sides, tentacles inserting above bell margin, no tentacular bulbs, bell margin lobed, stomach big, not forming a distinct manubrium, without radial canals; Statocysts almost always external, of endo-ectodermal origin.
Some abberrant forms without bell, wormlike, with four swimming lappets.
No stenoteles. Predominantly forms of the open sea and deeper waters. [details]
