Sphaeronectes
creator: Mapstone, Gill
creator: Schuchert, Peter
date: 2026-08-28
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Sphaeronectes Huxley, 1859
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2026). World Hydrozoa Database. Sphaeronectes Huxley, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135381 on 2026-08-28
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modified: 2015-04-17T07:47:15Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Sphaeronectes Huxley, 1859
class: Hydrozoa
family: Sphaeronectidae
genus: Sphaeronectes
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Huxley, Th.H., 1859. The oceanic Hydrozoa; a description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of H.M.S. "Rattlesnake", in the years 1846-50.
name published in: Claus, C. 1873. Ueber die Abstammung der Diplophysen und über eine neue Gruppen von Diphysiden. - Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: 257-261.
name published in: Leloup E. (1934a). Siphonophores calycophorides de l'Ocean Atlantique tropical et austral. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 10(6): 1-87.
name published in year: 1859
name published in year: 1873
name published in year: 1934
order: Siphonophorae
parent name usage ID: 135341
phylum: Cnidaria
scientific name authorship: Huxley, 1859
taxon rank: Genus
taxonomic status: accepted