Hydrozoa taxon details
Eucheilota McCrady, 1859
117092 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117092)
accepted
Genus
Eucheilota ventricularis McCrady, 1859 (type by monotypy)
Campomma Stechow, 1921 · unaccepted (synonym)
Phialium Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Species Eucheilota bakeri (Torrey, 1904)
- Species Eucheilota birabeni Tundisi, 1962
- Species Eucheilota bitentaculata Huang, Li & Zhong, 2010
- Species Eucheilota carinata Xu, Huang & Guo, 2018
- Species Eucheilota comata (Bigelow, 1909)
- Species Eucheilota convoluta Xu, Huang & Guo, 2019
- Species Eucheilota duodecimalis A. Agassiz, 1862
- Species Eucheilota flevensis Van Kampen, 1922
- Species Eucheilota foresti Goy, 1979
- Species Eucheilota hongkongensis Xu, Huang & Guo, 2014
- Species Eucheilota maasi Neppi & Stiasny, 1911
- Species Eucheilota macrogona Zhang & Lin, 1984
- Species Eucheilota maculata Hartlaub, 1894
- Species Eucheilota menoni Kramp, 1959
- Species Eucheilota minima Bouillon, 1984
- Species Eucheilota multicirris Xu & Huang, 1990
- Species Eucheilota paradoxica Mayer, 1900
- Species Eucheilota taiwanensis Xu & Huang, 1990
- Species Eucheilota tropica Kramp, 1959
- Species Eucheilota ventricularis McCrady, 1859
- Species Eucheilota xiamensis Xu, Huang & Guo, 2014
- Species Eucheilota bermudensis (Fewkes, 1883) accepted as Lovenella bermudensis (Fewkes, 1883)
- Species Eucheilota diademata Kramp, 1959 accepted as Eutima diademata (Kramp, 1959) (basionym)
- Species Eucheilota hartlaubi Russell, 1936 accepted as Lovenella clausa (Lovén, 1836) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, synonym)
- Species Eucheilota intermedia Kubota, 1984 accepted as Eutima japonica Uchida, 1925 (synonym)
- Species Eucheilota quadralis Fewkes, 1883 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, indeterminate juvenile type specien)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
McCrady, J. 1859. Gymnopthalmata of Charleston Harbor. Proceedings of the Elliott Society of Natural History 1: 103-221, pls 8-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42536587
page(s): 186 [details]
page(s): 186 [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Eucheilota McCrady, 1859. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php/api-docs/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117092 on 2025-05-06
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original description
McCrady, J. 1859. Gymnopthalmata of Charleston Harbor. Proceedings of the Elliott Society of Natural History 1: 103-221, pls 8-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42536587
page(s): 186 [details]
original description (of Phialium 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): 180 [details]
original description (of Campomma Stechow, 1921) Stechow, E. (1921d). Neue Genera und Species von Hydrozoen und anderen Evertebraten. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 87: 248-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45494398
page(s): 255 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
additional source 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): 186 [details]
original description (of Phialium 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): 180 [details]
original description (of Campomma Stechow, 1921) Stechow, E. (1921d). Neue Genera und Species von Hydrozoen und anderen Evertebraten. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 87: 248-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45494398
page(s): 255 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors

additional source 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]




From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Medusae with small manubrium, no gastric peduncle, four radial canals, gonads on radial canals but separated from from stomach; no excetory pores; with lateral cirri, withour marginal cirri; fixed number of statocysts, usually 8 but also 4, 12 or 16 possible; no ocelli; 4 radial canals. [details]