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Milleporidae Fleming, 1828 
AphiaID: 196235

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 Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Parent Capitata
Source  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

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[show all]		 Genus Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Feedingtype  carnivore [details]
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Note  Diagnosis: Hydroid colony forming massive, calcareous exoskeletons (= coenosteum) of varied shape; coenosteum with an internal complex network of coenosarcal tubes and covered externally by a thin ectodermal layer, coenosteal surface perforated by pores; margins of pores not elevated; large gastropores surrounded by smaller dactylopores, forming indistinct cyclosystems; polyps polymorphic; gastrozooids relatively short and stout, with an oral whorl of four to seven short capitate tentacles, arising from gastropores; dactylozooids long, slender, mouthless, with scattered capitate tentacles, arising from dactylopores; cnidome with stenoteles and macrobasic mastigophores; gonophores arising from coenosarc within chambers embedded entirely in the coenosteum.
Medusa free swimming eumedusoids with exumbrellar nematocyst patches, radial and circular canals present, without tentacles and sense organs; gonads occupying the place of an indistinct manubrium. [details]
Image 
Family Milleporidae - Genus Millepora
Family Milleporidae - Genus Millepora
added on 2013-06-07 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-07 13:46:43
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196235
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-30 14:07:12Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-04-28 06:22:10Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Milleporidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196235 on 2013-06-19
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