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Lepidotheca Cairns, 1983 
AphiaID: 231552

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Stylasteridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Errina fascicularis Cairns, 1983 (type by original designation)
Parent Stylasteridae Gray, 1847
Sources  original description: Cairns, S.D., 1983. A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bull. mar. Sci. 33 2: 427-508. [details]

basis of record: RAMS Hydrozoa checklist from Dr. Álvaro L. Peña Cantero (look up in IMIS) [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1986. A revision of the Northwest Atlantic Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Smithson. Contr. Zool. 418 : 1-131., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Zoology/pdf_hi/SCTZ-0418.pdf [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1991. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydroida). Mem. N.Z. oceanogr. Inst. 98 : 1-99. [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1986. Stylasteridae (Hydrozoa: Hydroida) of the Galapagos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 426: 1-42. [details]

identification resource: Cairns, S. D., 1992. A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 3. Keys to the genera. Bull Mar. Sci. 49(1-2): 538-545.  [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Norwegian Bokmål tunbalderbråslekta  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk tunbalderbråslekta  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Lepidotheca altispina Cairns, 1991
Species Lepidotheca brochi Cairns, 1986
Species Lepidotheca cervicornis (Broch, 1942)
Species Lepidotheca chauliostylus Cairns, 1991
Species Lepidotheca fascicularis (Cairns, 1983)
Species Lepidotheca hachijoensis (Eguchi, 1968)
Species Lepidotheca horrida (Hickson & England, 1905)
Species Lepidotheca inconsuta Cairns, 1991
Species Lepidotheca macropora Cairns, 1986
Species Lepidotheca pourtalesi Cairns, 1986
Species Lepidotheca ramosa (Hickson & England, 1905)
Species Lepidotheca robusta Cairns, 1991
Species Lepidotheca tenuistylus (Broch, 1942)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Depth range: 85-2100 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231552
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-05-29 14:23:10Z  created  Charbonneau, Danny
2010-11-21 16:41:40Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Lepidotheca Cairns, 1983. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231552 on 2013-05-26
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