Hydrozoa taxon details

Cladonematidae Gegenbaur, 1857

16356  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:16356)

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Family
Cladonemidae · unaccepted (incorrect spelling variant)
Dendronemidae Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
Eleutheriidae Russell, 1953 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Gegenbaur, C. (1857). Versuch eines Systems der Medusen, mit Beschreibung neuer oder wenig gekannter Formen; zugleich ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fauna des Mittelmeeres. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> Leipzig 8: 202-273, pls 7-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13864647
page(s): 220 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Cladonematidae Gegenbaur, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=16356 on 2024-03-29
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original description Gegenbaur, C. (1857). Versuch eines Systems der Medusen, mit Beschreibung neuer oder wenig gekannter Formen; zugleich ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Fauna des Mittelmeeres. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> Leipzig 8: 202-273, pls 7-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13864647
page(s): 220 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Dendronemidae 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): 107 [details]   

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 Hydroid colony stolonal; hydranth with one whorl of oral capitate tentacles, with or without aboral whorl of filiform tentacles; mouth giving into a preoral chamber formed by epidermal gland cells; medusa buds at base of hydranth or above filiform tentacles if such are present.
Medusa adapted to benthic mode of life and able to walk, some species still able to swim freely; with or without a thickened continuous or broken ring of nematocysts around umbrellar margin, with or without brood pouch above manubrium; manubrium cylindrical, with or without perradial pouches; mouth either with short lips, or with oral nematocyst clusters, or with ramified oral tentacles; gonads either completely surrounding manubrium, or on manubrial extrusions, or in special brood pouches; number of radial canals variable, some may be branched; marginal branched, with upper branches bearing nematocyst clusters and lower branches having adhesive organs; with abaxial ocelli on tentacle base.  [details]