WoRMS taxon details
Acaulidae Fraser, 1924
AphiaID: 22776
AphiaID: 22776
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Aplanulata (Suborder) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Aplanulata | |||||||||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C.; Pagès, F.; Gili, J.-M.; Boero, F. (2006). An introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 194. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-580-1. 591 + 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Acaulis Stimpson, 1854 Genus Acauloides Bouillon, 1965 Genus Cryptohydra Thomas, Edwards & Higgins, 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Hydroid solitary, body divided into basal and distal part. Basal part conical to cylindrical, covered or not by gelatinous perisarc which may form anchoring filaments. Distal part with tentacles, tentacles capitate or indistinctly capitate. Upper part of hydranth with one or two oral whorls of capitate tentacles and scattered capitate tentacles below; below capitate tentacles with or without one whorl of thick filiform tentacles Gonophores fixed sporosacs in the lower or middle part of the hydranth, sometimes with asexual reproduction by transverse fission [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22776 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Acaulidae. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22776 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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