WoRMS taxon details
Porpitidae Goldfuss, 1818
20790 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:20790)
accepted
Family
Chondrophora † · unaccepted (synonym)
Discalidae Haeckel, 1888 · unaccepted > junior subjective 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 > junior subjective synonym (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 (invalid emendation of Armenistarius Costa, 1835)
- Genus Armenistarius Costa, 1835 accepted as Velella Lamarck, 1801 (emendation of Armenistari Carburi, 1757 [non binomial])
- 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 (invalid name based on a nomen nudum species name)
- 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
Goldfuss, G.A., 1818. Ueber die Classification der Zoophyten. Isis, 1818 : 1008-1013.
page(s): 1012; note: originally introduced as Porpitae Goldfuss, 1818 (incorrect name formation) emended to Porpitidae by Guilding (1828) [details]
page(s): 1012; note: originally introduced as Porpitae Goldfuss, 1818 (incorrect name formation) emended to Porpitidae by Guilding (1828) [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Porpitidae Goldfuss, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=20790 on 2025-05-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Goldfuss, G.A., 1818. Ueber die Classification der Zoophyten. Isis, 1818 : 1008-1013.
page(s): 1012; note: originally introduced as Porpitae Goldfuss, 1818 (incorrect name formation) emended to Porpitidae by Guilding (1828) [details]
original description (of Velellidae Eschscholtz, 1829) Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): page VI [details]
original description (of Chondrophora †) Totton, A. K. (1954). Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean together with systematic and biological notes on related specimens from other oceans. <em>Discovery Rep.</em> 27: 1-162., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5611213
page(s): 26 [details]
original description (of Discalidae Haeckel, 1888) Haeckel, E. (1888). System der Siphonophoren auf phylogenetischer Grundlage entworfen. <em>Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft.</em> 22: 1-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12007523
page(s): 29 [details]
original description (of Porpalidae Haeckel, 1888) Haeckel, E. (1888). Report on the Siphonophorae. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 28 (part 77): i-viii, 1-380, pl. 1-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3155485
page(s): 57; note: as subfamily of Porpitidae, but suffix is family level, not sub-family [details]
original description (of Porpitellidae Haeckel, 1888) Haeckel, E. (1888). Report on the Siphonophorae. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 28 (part 77): i-viii, 1-380, pl. 1-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3155485
page(s): 63; note: as subfamily of Porpitidae, but suffix is family level, not sub-family [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]
page(s): 1012; note: originally introduced as Porpitae Goldfuss, 1818 (incorrect name formation) emended to Porpitidae by Guilding (1828) [details]
original description (of Velellidae Eschscholtz, 1829) Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): page VI [details]
original description (of Chondrophora †) Totton, A. K. (1954). Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean together with systematic and biological notes on related specimens from other oceans. <em>Discovery Rep.</em> 27: 1-162., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5611213
page(s): 26 [details]
original description (of Discalidae Haeckel, 1888) Haeckel, E. (1888). System der Siphonophoren auf phylogenetischer Grundlage entworfen. <em>Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft.</em> 22: 1-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12007523
page(s): 29 [details]
original description (of Porpalidae Haeckel, 1888) Haeckel, E. (1888). Report on the Siphonophorae. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 28 (part 77): i-viii, 1-380, pl. 1-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3155485
page(s): 57; note: as subfamily of Porpitidae, but suffix is family level, not sub-family [details]
original description (of Porpitellidae Haeckel, 1888) Haeckel, E. (1888). Report on the Siphonophorae. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 28 (part 77): i-viii, 1-380, pl. 1-50., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3155485
page(s): 63; note: as subfamily of Porpitidae, but suffix is family level, not sub-family [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]
Other
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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]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ギンカクラゲ科カツオノカンムリ科 [from synonym] | [details] |
