WoRMS taxon details
Halimedusidae Arai & Brinckmann-Voss, 1980
AphiaID: 266993
AphiaID: 266993
| 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 | Halimedusa Bigelow, 1916 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Capitata | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C.; Pagès, F.; Gili, J.-M.; Boero, F. (2006). An introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 194. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-580-1. 591 + 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: RAMS Hydrozoa checklist from Dr. Álvaro L. Peña Cantero (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Halimedusa Bigelow, 1916 Genus Tiaricodon Browne, 1902 Genus Urashimea Kishinouye, 1910 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Hydroid: polyps small (<0.2 mm), solitary; 3-8, generally 4 distal whorls of capitate tentacles, with a few scattered nematocysts along their length; medusa buds single, just below tentacles. Medusa usually with a low gastric peduncle and with distinct interradial peaks in jelly above manubrium base; manubrium cruciform, with basal perradial lobes; mouth quadratic to cruciform, with lips lined by nematocysts; four radial canals; either with four perradial marginal tentacles or with four perradial marginal tentacles and four interradial groups of tentacles, all hollow at base; gonads either on manubrium or on manubrium and perradial lobes; no mesenteries; marginal bulbs cylindrical, with abaxial ocelli. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266993 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Halimedusidae. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266993 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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