WoRMS taxon details
Koellikerina Kramp, 1939
AphiaID: 117019
AphiaID: 117019
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Bougainvilliidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Koellikerina fasciculata (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Bougainvilliidae Lütken, 1850 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Koellikeria L. Agassiz, 1862 (preoccupied by Koellikeria Cobbold, 1860 [Trematoda]) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Schuchert, P. 2007. The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. Revue suisse de Zoologie 114: 195-396 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Koellikerina bouilloni Kawamura & Kubota, 2005 Species Koellikerina constricta (Menon, 1932) Species Koellikerina diforficulata Xu & Zhang, 1978 Species Koellikerina elegans (Mayer, 1900) Species Koellikerina fasciculata (Péron & Lesueur, 1810) Species Koellikerina heteronemalis Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991 Species Koellikerina maasi (Browne, 1910) Species Koellikerina multicirrata (Kramp, 1928) Species Koellikerina octonemalis (Maas, 1905) Species Koellikerina ornata Kramp, 1959 Species Koellikerina staurogaster Xu & Huang, 2004 Species Koellikerina taiwanensis Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Hydroids colonial, stolonal or branching, covered by perisarc infested with foreign material; filmy perisarc also envelops hydranth body and basal part of tentacles; hydranths with one whorl of filiform tentacles; gonophores arise singly from hydranth pedicels, liberated as free medusae. Medusa with eight clusters of marginal tentacles, all tentacles similar in structure; with or without ocelli; with four dichotomously branching oral tentacles; gonads in perradial or adradial position. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117019 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Koellikerina Kramp, 1939. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117019 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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