Hydrozoa taxon detailsLovenellidae Russell, 1953
 1611 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1611)
accepted
Family
Eucheilotidae Bouillon, 1984 · unaccepted (synonym)
Phialidae Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish,
Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. [details] Available for editors
Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon
Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Lovenellidae Russell, 1953. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1611 on 2025-05-10
Date action by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z created db_admin
original description
Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. [details] Available for editors
original description (of Eucheilotidae Bouillon, 1984) Bouillon, J., 1984a. Révision de la famille des Phialuciidae (Kramp, 1955) (Leptomedusae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria), avec un essai de classification des Thecatae-Leptomedusae Indo-Malayan Zool. 1 1: 1-24. page(s): 17 [details] Available for editors original description (of Phialidae Haeckel, 1879) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578 page(s): 163, 180 [details] context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Medusa manubrium short; no gastric peduncle; no excretory pores; four simple radial canals; marginal tentacles hollow, with lateral cirri; no marginal cirri; gonads on radial canals, not reaching manubrium; 4, 8, 12 or more statocysts when adult; no ocelli.Hydroid colony stolonal or erect sympodial; hydrotheca pedicellate, elongate, everted-conical to bell-shaped, with diaphragm; operculum conical, formed either by many triangular plates in embayments of hydrothecal margin and demarcated from hydrothecal wall by crease line, or pleated continuation of the hydrothecal wall; hydrothecae in old specimens often reduced to a collar-shaped sheath around hydranth base; with or without intertentacular web; gonophores free medusae, gonothecae peduncled. [details] Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon [details] |
