Hydrozoa taxon details
Halimedusidae Arai & Brinckmann-Voss, 1980
266993 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266993)
accepted
Family
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Arai, M.N. & A. Brinckmann-Voss, 1980. Hydromedusae of British Columbia and Puget Sound. Can. Bull. Fish. aquat. Sci. 204 : 1-192.
page(s): 62 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 62 [details] Available for editors
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Halimedusidae Arai & Brinckmann-Voss, 1980. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266993 on 2025-05-04
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original description
Arai, M.N. & A. Brinckmann-Voss, 1980. Hydromedusae of British Columbia and Puget Sound. Can. Bull. Fish. aquat. Sci. 204 : 1-192.
page(s): 62 [details] Available for editors
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]
additional source RAMS Hydrozoa checklist from Dr. Álvaro L. Peña Cantero (look up in IMIS) [details]
redescription Mills C.E. (2000). The life cycle of Halimeda typus, with discussion of other species closely related to the family Halimedusidae (Hydrozoa, Capitata, Anthomedusae). <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 64(1): 97-106. [details] Available for editors
page(s): 62 [details] Available for editors
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]
additional source RAMS Hydrozoa checklist from Dr. Álvaro L. Peña Cantero (look up in IMIS) [details]
redescription Mills C.E. (2000). The life cycle of Halimeda typus, with discussion of other species closely related to the family Halimedusidae (Hydrozoa, Capitata, Anthomedusae). <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 64(1): 97-106. [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Hydroid: polyps small (<0.2 mm), solitary; 3-8, generally 4 distal whorls of capitate tentacles, with a few scattered nematocysts along their length; medusa buds single, just below tentacles. Medusa, with four or eight radial canals, a low peduncle, and distinct interradial or interradial and perradial pockets in the jelly above the base of the manubrium; red band on the manubrium, gonads extending out from the manubrium as lobes below the upper portions of the radial canals, but without mesenteries; mouth with lips lined by a row of sessile nematocyst clusters; four perradial hollow tentacles, or four perradial tentacles and four interradial single tentacles, or groups of hollow tentacles; cylindrical marginal bulbs, each with an abaxial ocellus (modified after Toshino et al., 2022). [details]
