WoRMS taxon details
Rhysiidae (Hickson & Gravely, 1907)
AphiaID: 231546
AphiaID: 231546
| 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 | ||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: RAMS Hydrozoa checklist from Dr. Álvaro L. Peña Cantero (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Rhysia Brinckmann, 1965 | ||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Hydroid stolonal or sessile, polymorphic; hydrorhiza tubular, covered with perisarc; gastrozooid naked, columnar, with either one whorl of filiform tentacles or with nematocyst clusters and a few thick filiform tentacles around hypostome; dactylozooids, when present, covered with perisarc up to capitate tip; gonads on hydranth resembling gastrozooid, on one side of the body, no gonophores; male hydranth with 3 or 4 filiform tentacles, female hydrants with or without tentacles and transforming into a sporosac-like structure with the endoderm forming a spadix, one egg, developing into a planula. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231546 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Rhysiidae (Hickson & Gravely, 1907). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231546 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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