Hydrozoa taxon details

Eirenidae Haeckel, 1879 
AphiaID: 15378

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Cnidaria > Hydrozoa > Hydroidolina > Leptothecata
Status accepted
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Rank Family
Parent Leptothecata
Synonymised
taxa
  Eutimidae Haeckel, 1879
Sources  basis of record: Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. Thalassia Salent. 24: 47-296 (look up in IMIS[details]

original description (from synonym): Haeckel, E. 1879. Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates. [details] [view taxon]

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 Genus Eirene Eschscholtz, 1829
Genus Eugymnanthea Palombi, 1936
Genus Eutima McCrady, 1859
Genus Eutimalphes Haeckel, 1879
Genus Eutonina Hartlaub, 1897
Genus Helgicirrha Hartlaub, 1909
Genus Irenium Haeckel, 1879
Genus Neotima Petersen, 1962
Genus Phialopsis Torrey, 1909
Genus Tima

Genus Dianaea Lamarck, 1816 (nomen dubium)

Genus Anthohydra Salvini-Plawen & Chandrasekhara Rao, 1973 accepted as Eugymnanthea Palombi, 1936
Genus Campanopsis Claus, 1881 accepted as Eirene Eschscholtz, 1829
Genus Halanthus Hadži, 1914 accepted as Eutima McCrady, 1859
Genus Octorchis Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Eutima McCrady, 1859
Genus Ostreohydra Yamada, 1950 accepted as Eugymnanthea Palombi, 1936
Environment marine
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Note  Diagnosis: Hydroid colony of benthic species stolonal or ramified erect; bivalve-inhabiting species without perisarc, with pedal disc, usually solitary; planktonic species solitary, polyp budding totally into a single medusa; hydrotheca cylindrical in young colonies of erect forms, with diaphragm and folded pleated operculum formed by convergent flaps not demarcated from the hydrothecal rim; in older colonies of this type, operculum generally lost and hydrotheca reduced to perisarcal collar, of haleciid type; hydrotheca usually reduced or absent in stolonal colonies, hydranth naked, borne directly on hydrorhiza or on short pedicels; hydranth of commensal species elongated, extensile, with filiform tentacles in a single amphicoronate whorl; intertentacular web present; gonophores on hydranths, hydrocaulus, or hydrorhiza, naked or more usually at least initially in a gonotheca, in form of medusae or medusoids with gonads on radial canals. Medusa manubrium small, on rather well differentiated gastric peduncle; four to six simple radial canals running from subumbrella along peduncle to manubrium; with or without excretory papillae or pores on tentacle bulbs; tentacles hollow; with or without cirri or marginal warts; gonads on radial canals, separated from manubrium, eight and more statocysts; without ocelli. [details]
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Family Eirenidae, typical polyp and medusa
Family Eirenidae, typical polyp and medusa
added on 2013-06-13 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-13 16:11:21
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:15378
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2010-07-13 05:41:40Z  checked  Schuchert, Peter
2013-05-21 11:03:14Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Eirenidae Haeckel, 1879. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database at http://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=15378 on 2013-06-19