WoRMS taxon details
Rathkeidae Russell, 1953
AphiaID: 19485
AphiaID: 19485
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Parent | Filifera | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. [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] redescription: Schuchert, P. 2007. The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. Revue suisse de Zoologie 114: 195-396 [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Allorathkea Schmidt, 1972 Genus Lizzia Forbes, 1846 Genus Podocorynoides Schuchert, 2007 Genus Pseudorathkea Xu & Huang, 1990 Genus Rathkea Brandt, 1837 Genus Cubogaster Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Cytaeis Eschscholtz, 1829 Genus Rathkia Brandt, 1837 accepted as Rathkea Brandt, 1837 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Medusa bell-shaped, manubrium either with four elongated lips forming simple or branched oral arms with terminal knobs, or perradial unbranched oral tentacles inserted vertically or very oblique at level of mouth margin; immature animals with or without orthogonally arranged interradial medusa buds. With four or eight radial canals and a circular canal. Usually eight bulbs, interradial ones with more than one tentacle, rarely only four bulbs and four tentacles Ocelli absent. Gonads encircle manubrium completely Hydroids (where known) colonial, arising from ramified stolons. Hydranths monomorphic, without pedicel, with one whorl of filiform tentacles. Medusa buds arise from stolons, or more rarely from base of hydranths. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:19485 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Rathkeidae 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=19485 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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