Hydrozoa taxon details
Ptilocodium Coward, 1909
267794 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267794)
accepted
Genus
- Species Ptilocodium repens Coward, 1909
- Species Ptilocodium quadratum Werner, 1965 accepted as Thecocodium quadratum (Werner, 1965) (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Coward, W. E. (1909). On Ptilocodium repens , a new gymnoblastic hydroid epizoic on a pennatulid. <em>Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen Amsterdam, Sect. Sci.</em> 17(2): 729-735.
page(s): 635 [details]
page(s): 635 [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Ptilocodium Coward, 1909. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php/api-docs/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267794 on 2026-10-16
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Coward, W. E. (1909). On Ptilocodium repens , a new gymnoblastic hydroid epizoic on a pennatulid. <em>Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen Amsterdam, Sect. Sci.</em> 17(2): 729-735.
page(s): 635 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
page(s): 635 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Hydroids sessile, hydrorhiza stolonal, reticular or encrusting and covered by naked coenosarc; hydranths polymorphic; gastrozooid without tentacles; dactylozooids with four or more capitate tentacles, sometimes filiform; gonophores on gonozooids or gastro-gonozooids; reproduction by fixed sporosacs, eumedusoids or free medusae. Medusa umbrella more or less bell-shaped; with or without radial exumbrellar furrows; centripetal tracks or exumbrellar rows of refringent spots; with marginal nematocyst ring; marginal tentacles absent or present, solid and nematocysts concentrated at tips; four radial canals and circular canal; manubrium tubular or bottle-shaped, with mouth arms with terminal nematocyst clusters, gonads adradial or interradial. [details]
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