Hydrozoa taxon details
Hydrocorynidae Rees, 1957
266975 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266975)
accepted
Family
- Genus Hydrocoryne Stechow, 1908
- Genus Samuraia Mangin, 1991
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Hydrocorynidae Rees, 1957. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266975 on 2024-04-24
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context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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]
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 Hydroid colony forming a chitinized hydrorhizal stolonal plate; hydranths columnar, with thickened, ridged mesogloeal lamella; tentacles hollow, capitate, in one or five to six close-set whorls around a conical hypostome; gonophores in clusters on proximal part of hydranth body or developing from from hydrorhiza. Gonophores free medusae or sessile sporosacs.Medusa umbrella evenly rounded; with or without gastric peduncle; four marginal tentacles with scattered nematocyst knobs and a small capitation; tentacular bulbs clasping, with ocelli; manubrium broadly flask-shaped or tubular, quadrate or cruciform; oral part of manubrium prismatic, ending in a cruciform mouth with or without nematocyst clusters; gonads interradial, without longitudinal groove, surrounding nearly the whole manubrium. [details]