WoRMS taxon details
Cladonematidae Gegenbaur, 1857
AphiaID: 16356
AphiaID: 16356
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Capitata (Suborder) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Cladonema Dujardin, 1843 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Capitata | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cladonemidae (incorrect spelling variant) Eleutheriidae Russell, 1953 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gegenbaur, C. 1857. Versuch eines Systemes der Medusen mit Beschreibung neuer oder wenig gekannter Formen; zugleich ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Fauna des Mittelmeeres. Z. wiss. Zool. 8 2: 202-273. page(s): 220 [details] basis of record: Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. Thalassia Salent. 24: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Schuchert, P. 2006a. The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Capitata Part 1. Revue suisse de Zoologie 113: 325-410. page(s): 371 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Cladonema Dujardin, 1843 Genus Eleutheria Quatrefages, 1842 Genus Staurocladia Hartlaub, 1917 Genus Dendronema Haeckel, 1879 (nomen dubium) Genus Cnidonema Gilchrist, 1918 accepted as Staurocladia Hartlaub, 1917 Genus Herpusa Schmidt, 1869 accepted as Eleutheria Quatrefages, 1842 Genus Stauridia Forbes, 1848 accepted as Cladonema Dujardin, 1843 Genus Stauridium Krohn, 1853 accepted as Cladonema Dujardin, 1843 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diagnosis: Hydroid colony stolonal; hydranth with one whorl of oral capitate tentacles, with or without aboral whorl of filiform tentacles; mouth giving into a preoral chamber formed by epidermal gland cells; medusa buds at base of hydranth or above filiform tentacles if such are present. Medusa adapted to benthic mode of life and able to walk, some species still able to swim freely; with or without a thickened continuous or broken ring of nematocysts around umbrellar margin, with or without brood pouch above manubrium; manubrium cylindrical, with or without perradial pouches; mouth either with short lips, or with oral nematocyst clusters, or with ramified oral tentacles; gonads either completely surrounding manubrium, or on manubrial extrusions, or in special brood pouches; number of radial canals variable, some may be branched; marginal branched, with upper branches bearing nematocyst clusters and lower branches having adhesive organs; with abaxial ocelli on tentacle base. [details] Spelling: Cladonemidae [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:16356 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Cladonematidae. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=16356 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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