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Solanderiidae Marshall, 1892 
AphiaID: 266972

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Capitata (Suborder)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Capitata
Synonymised
taxa		  Ceratelladae Gray, 1868g
Source  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

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taxa
[show all]		 Genus Solanderia Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846

Genus Ceratella Gray, 1868 accepted as Solanderia Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846
Genus Chitina Carter, 1873 accepted as Solanderia Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846
Genus Dehitella Gray, 1868 accepted as Solanderia Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846
Genus Dendrocoryne Inaba, 1892 accepted as Solanderia Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846
Genus Spongiocladium Jäderholm, 1896 accepted as Solanderia Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Link To ITIS
Note  Diagnosis: Hydroid forming large, branching colony, with chitinous internal anastomosing skeleton formed by coalescence and modification of adjacent hydrocauline tubes; coenosarc covering entire colony and penetrating skeletal interstices; hydranths over whole colony surface, uniform in structure, cylindrical, with a single whorl of capitate tentacles around mouth and numerous similar tentacles scattered over body; gonophores, where known, cryptomedusoid or eumedusoid, arising directly from coenosarc. [details]
Image 
Family Solanderidae - Genus Solanderia
Family Solanderidae - Genus Solanderia
added on 2013-06-07 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-07 14:01:14
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266972
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-10 07:31:11Z  created  Decock, Wim
2009-04-28 06:22:10Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
2011-05-30 07:27:35Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Solanderiidae Marshall, 1892. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266972 on 2013-06-20
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