WoRMS taxon details
Zancleidae Russell, 1953
AphiaID: 22781
AphiaID: 22781
| 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 | Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Capitata | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Halocorynidae | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] additional source: Boero, F., Bouillon J., Gravili C., 2000. A survey of Zanclea, Halocoryne and Zanclella (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Anthomedusae, Zancleidae) with description of new species. Ital. J. Zool. 67 1: 93-124. [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Halocoryne Hadzi, 1917 Genus Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 Genus Zanclella Boero & Hewitt, 1992 Genus Gemmaria accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Hydroid colonial, stolonal, pedicels present or very short; stolons creeping; polyps monomorphic or polymorphic; gastrozooids cylindrical or spindle-shaped, either with one whorl of oral capitate tentacles and many scattered capitate or moniliform tentacles, or with reduced capitate tentacles, or without tentacles; gonozooids and dactylozooids - when present - with capitate tentacles or these reduced to nematocyst patches. Medusa umbrella evenly rounded; four perradial exumbrellar nematocyst pads, pads either oval, clavate, elongate or linear, usually containing stenoteles; manubrium cylindric, mouth simple, circular; gonads usually interradial, rarely in a single mass around manubrium; four radial canals; marginal tentacles 0, 2 or 4, hollow, each with numerous abaxial stalked cnidophores containing macrobasic euryteles; without ocelli. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22781 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Zancleidae 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=22781 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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