Deep-Sea taxon details
Thyroscyphidae Stechow, 1920
233224 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:233224)
accepted
Family
- Genus Parascyphus Ritchie, 1911
- Genus Thyroscyphoides Naumov, 1955
- Genus Thyroscyphus Allman, 1877
- Genus Tuberocaulus Galea, 2019
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Thyroscyphidae Stechow, 1920. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=233224 on 2024-04-16
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Thyroscyphidae Stechow, 1920. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=233224 on 2024-04-16
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context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
From editor or global species database
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]
