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Australomedusidae Russell, 1971 
AphiaID: 266966

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Typetaxon Australomedusa Russell, 1970
Parent Filifera
Synonymised
taxa		  Platystomidae Zhang, 1982 (invalid name)
Sources  original description: Russell, F.S., 1971. On the female of the medusa Australomedusa baylii. J. Zool., Lond. 164 1: 133-135. [details]

basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Genus Australomedusa Russell, 1970
Genus Octorathkea Uchida, 1927
Genus Zhangiella Bouillon, Gravili, Pages, Gili & Boero, 2006

Genus Octobulbacea Zamponi, 1983 accepted as Gossea L. Agassiz, 1862
Genus Platystoma Zhang, 1982 accepted as Zhangiella Bouillon, Gravili, Pages, Gili & Boero, 2006
Environment marine, brackish, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Feedingtype  carnivore [details]
Note  Diagnosis: Hydroids stolonal, hydranth naked, with a single row of filiform oral tentacles near the middle of the body, hypostome extensible.
Medusa with simple mouth lips; four or exceptionally eight simple radial canals; perradial tentacles grouped into four clusters, with or without four groups of interradial tentacles or four interradial rudimentary bulbs; gonads on manubrium or on manubrium and partially on proximal part of radial canals; with or without ocelli. [details]
Image 
Illustration of family Australomedusidae
Illustration of family Australomedusidae
added on 2009-06-10 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2011-10-19 08:45:52
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266966
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-09 13:56:12Z  created  Decock, Wim
2008-01-10 07:31:11Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2009-04-28 12:00:23Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
2009-06-10 10:37:21Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Australomedusidae Russell, 1971. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266966 on 2013-05-19
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