WoRMS taxon details
Blackfordiidae Bouillon, 1984
- Genus Blackfordia Mayer, 1910
marine, brackish, terrestrial
Bouillon, J., 1984a. RĂ©vision 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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Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Blackfordiidae Bouillon, 1984. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22793 on 2024-08-17
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Bouillon, J., 1984a. RĂ©vision 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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context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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]
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context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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]
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Diagnosis Medusa with small and short manubrium; mouth with four long, drawn-out lips; numerous hollow tentacles; tentacle gastrodermis extending inwards from bell margin into bell mesogloea; four radial canals; gonads cover radial canals completely; no permanent rudimentary tentacles; numerous closed statocysts.
Hydroid colony stolonal, rarely slightly ramified; hydrotheca with diaphragm; operculum composed of numerous, converging, triangular flaps, showing no clear demarcation from hydrothecal margin; hydranth with one whorl of 12-16 filiform tentacles, with membranous intertentacular web; gonothecae developing on stem or on hydranth stalk, one medusa in each gonotheca. [details]