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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella Haeckel, 1879 
AphiaID: 117162

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCnidaria (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHydrozoa (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHydroidolina (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLeptothecata (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTiaropsis polydiademata Romanes, 1876 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella polydiademata (Romanes, 1876) (type by monotypy)
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomidae Haeckel, 1879
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella Haeckel, 1879
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTrissocoma Kramp, 1930 (synonym)
Sources  original description Haeckel E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena. 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101461#page/9/mode/1up
page(s): 184 [details]

redescription Kramp, P. L. (1932d). A revision of the medusae belonging to family Mitrocomidae. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København. 92: 305-383, pl. 10.
page(s): 340 [details]

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taxa (9)
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[sort alpha..]		 Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella brownei (Kramp, 1930)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella frigida (Browne, 1910)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella grandis Kramp, 1965
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella millardae Pagès, Gili & Bouillon, 1992
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella niwai Bouillon & Barnett, 1999
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella polydiademata (Romanes, 1876)
Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella sinuosa (Foerster, 1923)

Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella cruciata (Agassiz, 1865) (taxon inquirendum)

Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella fulva Browne, 1903 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMitrocomella polydiademata (Romanes, 1876)
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDiagnosis Mitrocomidae medusa with 4 radial canals; marginal cirri spirally coiled or not; 8, 12 or 16 (exceptionally up to 19) statocysts. Hydroid of ‘‘Cuspidella’’ type; operculum pleated, presenting no clear limits with the hydrothecal margin; gonothecae unknown. [details]
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Mitrocomella polydiademata, Scotland, subadult
Mitrocomella polydiade...
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117162
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2015-11-19 10:54:58Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
2016-04-22 05:44:22Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2016). Mitrocomella Haeckel, 1879. In: Schuchert, P. (2017). World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117162 on 2017-08-22
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