WoRMS taxon details
Boreohydridae Westblad, 1947
22777 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22777)
accepted
Family
- Genus Plotocnide Wagner, 1885
- Genus Psammohydra Schulz, 1950
- Genus Boreohydra Westblad, 1937 accepted as Plotocnide Wagner, 1885 (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Westblad, E., 1947. Notes on hydroids. Ark. Zool., Stockholm -39 5: 1-23. [details]
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Boreohydridae Westblad, 1947. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22777 on 2024-10-31
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original description
Westblad, E., 1947. Notes on hydroids. Ark. Zool., Stockholm -39 5: 1-23. [details]
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]
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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Medusa umbrella evenly rounded with thick apical jelly; manubrium half as long as bell cavity, with or without broad, dome-shaped apical chamber; mouth simple, with ring of nematocysts; gonad forming thick ring around manubrium; four narrow radial canalsand narrow ring canal; four marginal bulbs each with a solid tentacle terminating in ovoid knob studded with nematocysts. No ocelli.
Hydroids solitary, small, with one whorl of reduced tentacles, capitate or not, located in the oral or median part of column; perisarc covering of base filmy or absent; gametes in body wall. [details]