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WoRMS taxon detailsPorpitidae Goldfuss, 1818
 20790 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:20790)
accepted
Family
Chondrophora † · unaccepted (synonym)
Discalidae Haeckel, 1888 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Porpalidae Haeckel, 1888 · unaccepted (synonym)
Porpitae · unaccepted (incorrect family name formation,...)
incorrect family name formation, emended to Porpitidae by Guilding (1828) Porpitellidae Haeckel, 1888 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velellidae Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (synonym)
marine,
recent + fossil
Goldfuss, G.A., 1818. Ueber die Classification der Zoophyten. Isis, 1818 : 1008-1013.
page(s): 1012; note: originally introduced as Porpitae Goldfuss, 1818 (incorrect name formation) emended to Porpitidae by Guilding (1828) [details] 
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Porpitidae Goldfuss, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=20790 on 2025-07-16
Date action by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z created db_admin
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Goldfuss, G.A., 1818. Ueber die Classification der Zoophyten. Isis, 1818 : 1008-1013. page(s): 1012; note: originally introduced as Porpitae Goldfuss, 1818 (incorrect name formation) emended to Porpitidae by Guilding (1828) [details] original description (of Velellidae Eschscholtz, 1829) Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047 page(s): page VI [details] original description (of Chondrophora †) Totton, A. K. (1954). Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean together with systematic and biological notes on related specimens from other oceans. <em>Discovery Rep.</em> 27: 1-162., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5611213 page(s): 26 [details] original description (of Discalidae Haeckel, 1888) Haeckel, E. (1888). System der Siphonophoren auf phylogenetischer Grundlage entworfen. <em>Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft.</em> 22: 1-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12007523 page(s): 29 [details] original description (of Porpalidae Haeckel, 1888) Haeckel, E. (1888). Report on the Siphonophorae. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 28 (part 77): i-viii, 1-380, pl. 1-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3155485 page(s): 57; note: as subfamily of Porpitidae, but suffix is family level, not sub-family [details] original description (of Porpitellidae Haeckel, 1888) Haeckel, E. (1888). Report on the Siphonophorae. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 28 (part 77): i-viii, 1-380, pl. 1-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3155485 page(s): 63; note: as subfamily of Porpitidae, but suffix is family level, not sub-family [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] Other Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Hydroid colonial, mobile, when mature floating on water surface, with a chitinous internal skeleton, forming a floating chamber, covered by mantle, hydranths polymorphic on underside of float, one central, large, atentaculate gastrozooid; surrounded by gastro-gonozooids and dactylozooids; tentacles capitate or reduced to nematocyst patches. Medusa with evenly-rounded bell; four or eight radial canals and an equal number of exumbrellar nematocystcyst tracks containing stenoteles, nematocyst tracks originating from marginal bulbs; circular canal present; manubrium short, conical; mouth circular; gonads perradial or irregularly arranged perradially and interradially; two opposite thin marginal tentacles terminating in large spherical nematocyst knob, with or without an additional adaxially oriented short tentacle developed from tentaculiferous bulbs; two or six small marginal bulbs without tentacles; ocelli lacking; cndome comprising spherical stenoteles, macrobasic euryteles and atrichous haplonemes; zooxanthellae generally present. [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Velellidae Eschscholtz, 1829) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Porpitidae) To Genbank To ITIS From editor or global species database
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