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Tetraplatidae Collins, Bentlage, Lindner, Lindsay, Haddock, Jarms, Norenburg, Jankowski & Cartwright, 2008 
AphiaID: 394119

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Trachylinae (Subclass) > Narcomedusae (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Narcomedusae
Source  original description: Collins, A. G., Bentlage, B., Alberto Lindner, A., Lindsay, D., Haddock, S.H. D., Jarms, G., Norenburg, J. L., Jankowski, T., & Paulyn Cartwright, P. (2008) Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 88(8): 1673-1685.
page(s): 11 [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Genus Tetraplatia Busch, 1851
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Note  Diagnosis: Narcomedusae without bell, worm-like, body divided by groove into aboral and oral halves, along groove four marginal lappets used for swimming. Aboral and oral portion of body mayor may not be connected by four flying buttresses alternating with marginal lappets. Eight sense organs in marginal lappets. No tentacles. Four epidermal gonads each with paired aboral and oral lobes.  [details]
Image 
Tetraplatia volitans
Tetraplatia volitans
added on 2013-06-17 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-17 15:53:50
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:394119
Taxonomic
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2009-04-29 13:54:41Z  created  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Tetraplatidae Collins, Bentlage, Lindner, Lindsay, Haddock, Jarms, Norenburg, Jankowski & Cartwright, 2008. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=394119 on 2013-06-20
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