Hydrozoa taxon details
Porpitidae Goldfuss, 1818
Chondrophora Totton, 1954 † · unaccepted (synonym)
Discalidae Haeckel, 1888 · unaccepted (synonym)
Porpalidae Haeckel, 1888 · unaccepted (synonym)
Porpitae · unaccepted (incorrect family name formation,...)
incorrect family name formation, emended to Porpitidae by Guilding (1828)
Porpitellidae Haeckel, 1888 · unaccepted (synonym)
Velellidae Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Genus Porpita Lamarck, 1801
- Genus Velella Lamarck, 1801
- Genus Acies Lesson, 1830 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Armenista Haeckel, 1888 accepted as Velella Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Armenistari Carburi, 1757 accepted as Velella Lamarck, 1801 (not binomial)
- Genus Armenistarium Costa, 1841 accepted as Velella Lamarck, 1801 (emendation of Armenistarius Costa, 1835)
- Genus Armenistarius Costa, 1835 accepted as Velella Lamarck, 1801 (emendation of Armenistari Carburi, 1757)
- Genus Chrysomitra Gegenbaur, 1857 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Discalia Haeckel, 1888 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Discomitra Haeckel, 1888 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Disconalia Haeckel, 1888 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Phyllidoce Browne, 1789 accepted as Velella Lamarck, 1801 (invalid name, published in a suppressed work, ICZN Opinion 89)
- Genus Polybrachionia Guilding, 1828 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Porpalia Haeckel, 1888 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Porpema Haeckel, 1888 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Porpitella Haeckel, 1888 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (invalid junior homonym of Porpitella Pomel, 1883 [Echinodermata])
- Genus Rataria Eschscholtz, 1829 accepted as Velella Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Ratis Lesson, 1830 accepted as Porpita Lamarck, 1801 (synonym)
- Genus Velaria Haeckel, 1888 accepted as Velella Lamarck, 1801 (preoccupied for Porifera)
- Genus Velella Columnae, 1616 accepted as Velella Lamarck, 1801 (not binomial)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Not documented
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Porpitidae Goldfuss, 1818. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=20790 on 2024-04-19
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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. <i>Thalassia Salent. 24</i>: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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. <i>Thalassia Salent. 24</i>: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Hydroid colonial, mobile, when mature floating on water surface, with a chitinous internal skeleton, forming a floating chamber, covered by mantle, hydranths polymorphic on underside of float, one central, large, atentaculate gastrozooid; surrounded by gastro-gonozooids and dactylozooids; tentacles capitate or reduced to nematocyst patches. Medusa with evenly-rounded bell; four or eight radial canals and an equal number of exumbrellar nematocystcyst tracks containing stenoteles, nematocyst tracks originating from marginal bulbs; circular canal present; manubrium short, conical; mouth circular; gonads perradial or irregularly arranged perradially and interradially; two opposite thin marginal tentacles terminating in large spherical nematocyst knob, with or without an additional adaxially oriented short tentacle developed from tentaculiferous bulbs; two or six small marginal bulbs without tentacles; ocelli lacking; cndome comprising spherical stenoteles, macrobasic euryteles and atrichous haplonemes; zooxanthellae generally present. [details]
