original description
(of Orchistomidae Bouillon, 1984) Bouillon, J., 1984a. Révision de la famille des Phialuciidae (Kramp, 1955) (Leptomedusae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria), avec un essai de classification des Thecatae-Leptomedusae Indo-Malayan Zool. 1 1: 1-24.
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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]
additional source
Bouillon, J. (1984). Hydroméduses de la Mer de Bismarck (Papouasie - Nouvelle - Guinée). Partie IV: Leptomedusae (Hydrozoa - Cnidaria). <em>Indo-Malayan Zool.</em> 1(1): 25-112. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C.; Pagès, F.; Gili, J.-M.; Boero, F. (2006). An introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 194. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-580-1. 591 + 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 361 [details]
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Diagnosis
Medusa with very short manubrium on large gastric peduncle; mouth with 8-30 sinuous or crenulated folds; eight or more radial canals, simple, ramified, or in clusters of four; up to 64 marginal tentacles, laterally compressed; no marginal cirri, but in intertentacular space filiform, tentaculiform structures devoid of marginal bulbs, not in contact with circular canal; gonads usually on proximal parts of radial canals; numerous (up to 800) adaxial ocelli; without statocysts, without cordyli, without excretory pores or papillae.
Hydroid phase unknown. [details]
Nomenclature
The grammatical root for the formation of the family name based on the genus name Orchistoma is "stomat-", not "stoma-", for it is derived from "stomatos", the genitive form of the Greek word "stoma" (compare Genus Myzostoma Family Myzostomatidae). The correct family name is thus Orchistomatidae and not as first proposed Orchistomidae. [details]
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