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Zancleidae Russell, 1953 
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]

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[hide all]		 Genus Halocoryne Hadzi, 1917
  » Species Halocoryne epizoica Hadzi, 1917
» Species Halocoryne frasca Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Halocoryne orientalis (Browne, 1916)
» Species Halocoryne pirainoid Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
Genus Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856
  » Species Zanclea alba (Meyen, 1834)
» Species Zanclea apicata Xu, Huang & Gua, 2008
» Species Zanclea baudini Gershwin & Zeidler, 2003
» Species Zanclea bomala Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Zanclea carinata Gershwin & Zeidler, 2003
» Species Zanclea costata Gegenbaur, 1857
» Species Zanclea cubensis Varela, 2012
» Species Zanclea divergens Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Zanclea dubia Kramp, 1959
» Species Zanclea exposita Puce, Cerrano, Boyer, Ferretti & Bavestrello, 2002
» Species Zanclea fanella Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Zanclea gemmosa Mac Crady, 1859
» Species Zanclea giancarloi Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Zanclea gilii Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Zanclea hicksoni (Stepanjants, 1972)
» Species Zanclea hirohitoi Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Zanclea implexa (Alder, 1856)
» Species Zanclea macrocystae (Xu, Huang & Chen, 1991)
» Species Zanclea margarita Panthos & Bythell, 2010
» Species Zanclea medusopolypata Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Zanclea migottoi Galea, 2008
» Species Zanclea ngeriana Gershwin & Zeidler, 2003
» Species Zanclea polymorpha Schuchert, 1996
» Species Zanclea prolifera Uchida & Sugiura, 1976
» Species Zanclea protecta Hastings, 1932
» Species Zanclea retractilis Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Zanclea sango Hirose & Hirose, 2011
» Species Zanclea sardii Gershwin & Zeidler, 2003
» Species Zanclea sessilis (Gosse, 1853)
» Species Zanclea timida Puce, Di Camillo & Bavestrello, 2008
» Species Zanclea tipis Puce, Cerrano, Boyer, Ferretti & Bavestrello, 2002
» Species Zanclea indica Mammen, 1963 (species inquirenda)
» Species Zanclea orientalis Browne, 1916 (species inquirenda)
» Species Zanclea parasitica Krohn, 1853 (species inquirenda)
Genus Zanclella Boero & Hewitt, 1992
  » Species Zanclella bryozoophila Boero & Hewitt, 1992
» Species Zanclella diabolica Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000
» Species Zanclella glomboides Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000

Genus Gemmaria accepted as Zanclea Gegenbaur, 1856
  » Species Gemmaria hicksoni Stepanjants, 1972 accepted as Zanclea hicksoni (Stepanjants, 1972)
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Links To GenBank
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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]
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Family Zancleidae
Family Zancleidae
added on 2013-06-07 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-07 14:07:58
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22781
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2009-04-28 06:22:10Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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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 2013-06-20
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