Hydrozoa taxon details
Bythotiaridae Maas, 1905
231542 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231542)
accepted
Family
Calycopsidae Mayer, 1910 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Calycopsidi Mayer, 1910 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling (incorrect name formation)
Calycopsini Mayer, 1910 · unaccepted
- Genus Brinckmannia Schuchert & Reiswig, 2006
- Genus Bythocellata Nair, 1951
- Genus Bythotiara Günther, 1903
- Genus Calycopsis Fewkes, 1882
- Genus Eumedusa Bigelow, 1920
- Genus Gymnogonium Xu & Huang, 1994
- Genus Laticanna Xu, Huang & Wang, 2018
- Genus Meator Bigelow, 1913
- Genus Protiaropsis Stechow, 1919
- Genus Pseudotiara Bouillon, 1980
- Genus Sibogita Maas, 1905
- Genus Ascidioclava Kirk, 1915 accepted as Bythotiara Günther, 1903 (synonym)
- Genus Crypta Fraser, 1911 accepted as Endocrypta Fraser, 1912 accepted as Bythotiara Günther, 1903 (name preoccupied)
- Genus Endocrypta Fraser, 1912 accepted as Bythotiara Günther, 1903 (synonym)
- Genus Heterotiara Maas, 1905 accepted as Protiaropsis Stechow, 1919 (invalid junior homonym of Heterotiara Pomel, 1883 [Echinodermata])
- Genus Kanaka Uchida, 1947 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Maas O. (1905). Die Craspedoten Medusen der Siboga-Expeditie. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> 10: 1-84, pls 1-14., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11712344
page(s): 15 [details]
page(s): 15 [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Bythotiaridae Maas, 1905. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231542 on 2025-05-04
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original description
Maas O. (1905). Die Craspedoten Medusen der Siboga-Expeditie. <em>Siboga Expeditie.</em> 10: 1-84, pls 1-14., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11712344
page(s): 15 [details]
original description (of Calycopsidi Mayer, 1910) Mayer, A. G. 1910. Medusae of the world. Hydromedusae, Vols. I & II. Scyphomedusae, Vol III. Carnegie Institution, Washington. pp. 735, plates 1-76., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1327020
page(s): 104 [details]
original description (of Calycopsidae Mayer, 1910) Mayer, A. G. 1910. Medusae of the world. Hydromedusae, Vols. I & II. Scyphomedusae, Vol III. Carnegie Institution, Washington. pp. 735, plates 1-76., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1327020
page(s): 104 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record RAMS Hydrozoa checklist from Dr. Álvaro L. Peña Cantero (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source 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]
identification resource Du F, Wang L, Xu Zh, Huang J, Guo D. (2018). Taxonomic notes on Anthomedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Hydroidomedusa) from the south-central South China Sea, with a new genus and four new species. <em>Acta Oceanologica Sinica.</em> 37(10): 112–118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-018-1310-5 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 15 [details]
original description (of Calycopsidi Mayer, 1910) Mayer, A. G. 1910. Medusae of the world. Hydromedusae, Vols. I & II. Scyphomedusae, Vol III. Carnegie Institution, Washington. pp. 735, plates 1-76., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1327020
page(s): 104 [details]
original description (of Calycopsidae Mayer, 1910) Mayer, A. G. 1910. Medusae of the world. Hydromedusae, Vols. I & II. Scyphomedusae, Vol III. Carnegie Institution, Washington. pp. 735, plates 1-76., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1327020
page(s): 104 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record RAMS Hydrozoa checklist from Dr. Álvaro L. Peña Cantero (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source 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]
identification resource Du F, Wang L, Xu Zh, Huang J, Guo D. (2018). Taxonomic notes on Anthomedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Hydroidomedusa) from the south-central South China Sea, with a new genus and four new species. <em>Acta Oceanologica Sinica.</em> 37(10): 112–118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-018-1310-5 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Hydroids living in the prebranchial cavities of ascidians, unbranched, naked, arising from fleshy, plate-like hydrorhiza; hydranths with indistinct, naked pedicel, up to five irregular whorls of filiform tentacles; medusae buds arising from polyps at junction to pedicel. Medusa with four lips, simple or crenulated; with or without centripetal canals; gonads on manubrial wall, adradial or interradial, simple or folded; four or eight radial canals, simple or branching; four, eight, or more hollow marginal tentacles, each a large terminal swelling, basal portion of tentacles often adnate to exumbrella; marginal bulbs highly reduced or absent; with or without rudimentary or dwarf solid tentacles; rarely with abaxial ocelli. [details]
