WoRMS taxon details
Blackfordiidae Bouillon, 1984
Genus Blackfordia Mayer, 1910
marine, brackish
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.
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Schuchert, P. (2023). World Hydrozoa Database. Blackfordiidae Bouillon, 1984. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22793 on 2023-06-04
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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): 12 [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
page(s): 12 [details] Available for editors
[request] 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]
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Diagnosis Medusa with small and short manubrium; mouth with four long, drawn-out lips; numerous hollow tentacles; tentacle gastrodermis extending inwards from bell margin into bell mesogloea; four radial canals; gonads cover radial canals completely; no permanent rudimentary tentacles; numerous closed statocysts.
Hydroid colony stolonal, rarely slightly ramified; hydrotheca with diaphragm; operculum composed of numerous, converging, triangular flaps, showing no clear demarcation from hydrothecal margin; hydranth with one whorl of 12-16 filiform tentacles, with membranous intertentacular web; gonothecae developing on stem or on hydranth stalk, one medusa in each gonotheca. [details]
