Hydrozoa taxon details
Zancleopsidae Bouillon, 1978
266976 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266976)
accepted
Family
- Genus Dicnida Bouillon, 1978
- Genus Zancleopsis Hartlaub, 1907
- Genus Cnidotiara Uchida, 1927 accepted as Zancleopsis Hartlaub, 1907 (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bouillon, J. 1978c. Hydromeduses de la mer de Bismarck (Papouasie, Nouvelle-Guinée). Partie 1: Anthomedusae Capitata (Hydrozoa - Cnidaria). Cahiers de Biologie Marine 19: 249-297.
page(s): 284 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 284 [details] Available for editors
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Zancleopsidae Bouillon, 1978. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266976 on 2025-08-06
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Bouillon, J. 1978c. Hydromeduses de la mer de Bismarck (Papouasie, Nouvelle-Guinée). Partie 1: Anthomedusae Capitata (Hydrozoa - Cnidaria). Cahiers de Biologie Marine 19: 249-297.
page(s): 284 [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Wang, C.; Xu, Z.; Huang, J.; Guo, D.; Lin, M.; Xia, Z. (2016). Taxonomic notes on Hydroidomedusae (Cnidaria) from South China Sea III: Family Rathkeidae and Zancleopsidae. <em>Zoological Systematics.</em> 41(4): 392-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.201644 [details] Available for editors
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
page(s): 284 [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Wang, C.; Xu, Z.; Huang, J.; Guo, D.; Lin, M.; Xia, Z. (2016). Taxonomic notes on Hydroidomedusae (Cnidaria) from South China Sea III: Family Rathkeidae and Zancleopsidae. <em>Zoological Systematics.</em> 41(4): 392-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.201644 [details] Available for editors
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
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Diagnosis Medusa with conical or dome-shaped umbrella, with or without apical projection; manubrium flask-shaped, with quadrate or cruciform base, mouth simple, cruciform or circular, with or without lips; two or four tentacles, with or without capitate branches; bulbs with adaxial hemispherical projections equipped with nematocysts; with or without abaxial ocelli; gonads aradial to interradial, with interradial grooves. Polyps known for Zancleopsis only; colonies stolonal; hydrocaulus short to moderately long, simple, arising from a hydrorhiza embedded in host sponge; perisarc thin, covering both the hydrorhiza and the hydrocaulus; hydranth slightly pyriform to cylindrical, with proboscis-like hypostome and dicapitate tentacles in one or two alternating whorls around broadest part of body; gonophores developing among tentacles as free medusae
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Zancleopsidae)
To Genbank
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Zancleopsidae)
To Genbank
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
