WoRMS taxon details
Lovenellidae Russell, 1953
AphiaID: 1611
AphiaID: 1611
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Leptothecata (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Leptothecata | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Eucheilotidae Bouillon, 1984 (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Source |
original description: Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Cirrholovenia Kramp, 1959 Genus Eucheilota McCrady, 1859 Genus Hydranthea Hincks, 1868 Genus Lovenella Hincks, 1868 Genus Mitrocomium Haeckel, 1879 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Hydroid colony stolonal or erect sympodial; hydrotheca pedicellate, elongate, everted-conical to bell-shaped, with diaphragm; operculum conical, formed either by many triangular plates in embayments of hydrothecal margin and demarcated from hydrothecal wall by crease line, or pleated continuation of the hydrothecal wall; hydrothecae in old specimens often reduced to a collar-shaped sheath around hydranth base; with or without intertentacular web; gonophores free medusae, gonothecae peduncled. Medusa manubrium short; no gastric peduncle; no excretory pores; four simple radial canals; marginal tentacles hollow, with lateral cirri; no marginal cirri; gonads on radial canals, not reaching manubrium; 16 or more statocysts when adult; no ocelli. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1611 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Lovenellidae Russell, 1953. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1611 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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