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Monobrachiidae Mereschkowsky, 1877 
AphiaID: 411572

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Trachylinae (Subclass) > Limnomedusae (Order)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Limnomedusae
Sources  original description: Mereschkowsky, C. 1877. On a new genus of hydroids from the White Sea with a short description of other new hydroids. Annals and Magazine of natural History (4) 20: 220-229, pls 5-6, available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/s4annalsmagazine20londuoft#page/228/mode/2up
page(s): 226 [details]

basis of record: Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriquez, S.L. Romano, J.L. Stake. (2007). The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa (1668): 127-182, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01668p182.pdf [details]

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[show all]		 Genus Monobrachium Mereschkowsky, 1877
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Note  Diagnosis: Hydroid colony stolonal, living on bivalve shells; hydrorhiza creeping reticulated or incrusting or both reticulated and incrusting; hydranth sessile, claviform, only a single filiform tentacle below large hypostome; sometimes dactylo- zooids in form of stalked nematocyst knobs; gonophores arising from hydrorhiza, developing into fixed or free eumedusoids without tentacles, gonads along radial canals; with or without statocysts.  [details]
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Family Monobrachiidae: Genus Monobrachium
Family Monobrachiidae: Genus Monobrachium
added on 2013-06-17 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-17 11:33:21
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:411572
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-08-12 11:48:18Z  created  db_admin
2009-11-12 12:44:27Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
2009-11-12 12:55:40Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Monobrachiidae Mereschkowsky, 1877. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411572 on 2013-06-18
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