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Malagazzia Bouillon, 1984

Malagazzia condensum from Bouillon (1984b)

AphiaID

231547 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231547)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Malagazziidae Bouillon, 1984

Original name

Malagazzia Bouillon, 1984

Direct children (8)

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Species Malagazzia carolinae (Mayer, 1900)
Species Malagazzia condensum (Kramp, 1953)
Species Malagazzia curviductum (Xu & Zhang, 1978)
Species Malagazzia cyphogonia (He & Xu, 1982)
Species Malagazzia hirsutissima Akiyama, Horinouchi & Kubota, 2013
Species Malagazzia monocanalis Xu, Huang & Liu, 2007
Species Malagazzia multitentaculatum (Menon, 1932)
Species Malagazzia taeniogonia (Chow & Huang, 1958)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Bouillon, J., 1984a. Révision 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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Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Malagazzia Bouillon, 1984. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231547 on 2025-05-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-05-29 14:23:10Z

created

Charbonneau, Danny

2009-06-15 18:10:07Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2016-02-15 10:28:36Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2016-02-19 07:08:47Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Bouillon, J., 1984a. Révision 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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Other

additional source Akiyama H., Horinouchi S., Kubota S. (2013). A New Hydromedusa of the Genus Malagazzia (Leptomedusae; Malagazzidae) from Japan. <em>Biogeography.</em> 15: 95-99.
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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Diagnosis Malagazziidae medusa with normally four radial canals; manubrium with four lips; gonad linear or ribbon-like. Hydroid with the characters of the family. [details]

Spelling The name Malagazzia is dervided from a locality name, thus requires not a female gender of the sepcific epithet. [details]

Type designation No type species has been selected so far. [details]

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