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Aequoreidae Eschscholtz, 1829

Family Aequoreidae
Family Aequoreidae

13553  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:13553)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Medusozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hydrozoa (Class)
  6. Hydroidolina (Subclass)
  7. Leptothecata (Order)
  8. Aequoreidae (Family)
accepted
Family
Aequoridae Eschscholtz, 1829 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (spelling variant)
Polycannidae Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
Zygocannidae Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)

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  1. Genus Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810
  2. Genus Aldersladia Gershwin, 2006
  3. Genus Gangliostoma Xu, 1983
  4. Genus Rhacostoma L. Agassiz, 1851
  5. Genus Tarracodiscus Romero, Rogers & Gershwin, 2011 †
  6. Genus Zygocanna Haeckel, 1879
  7. Genus Crematostoma A. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (synonym)
  8. Genus Mesonema Eschscholtz, 1829 accepted as Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (synonym)
  9. Genus Polycanna Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Rhacostoma L. Agassiz, 1851 (synonym)
  10. Genus Rhegmatodes A. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (synonym)
  11. Genus Zigocanna accepted as Zygocanna Haeckel, 1879 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, spelling mistake)
  12. Genus Zygocannota Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Zygocanna Haeckel, 1879 (synonym)
  13. Genus Zygocannula Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Zygocanna Haeckel, 1879 (synonym)
  14. Genus Zygodactyla Brandt, 1835 accepted as Aequorea Péron & Lesueur, 1810 (synonym)
  15. Genus Staurobrachium Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  16. Genus Stomobrachium Brandt, 1838 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, dubious)
marine, terrestrial
Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): 108 [details] 
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Aequoreidae Eschscholtz, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=13553 on 2025-05-13
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2010-06-25 10:42:00Z
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Schuchert, Peter
2015-11-20 08:15:41Z
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Schuchert, Peter

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Nomenclature

original description Eschscholtz, F. (1829). System der Acalephen. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung aller medusenartigen Strahltiere. Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin, pp. 1-190, 116 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10665047
page(s): 108 [details] 

original description (of Zygocannidae 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): 214 [details] 

original description (of Polycannidae 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 [details] 

Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

 
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Diagnosis 
Very large hydromedusa with wide, circular manubrium; usually no gastric peduncle; numerous simple or branched radial canals; gonads on radial canals, separated from manubrium; marginal tentacles hollow; usually with excretory pores or papillae on bulbs; no marginal or lateral cirri; statocysts closed; no ocelli.
Hydroid colony stolonal or sparingly branched; hydrotheca delicate, tubular, elongated, radially symmetrical, operculum a continuation of hydrothecal wall, composed of several long, triangular flaps, not delimited by crease-line; in older colonies operculum generally lost and hydrotheca reduced to a perisarcal collar; hydranth with intertentacular web, tentacles amphicoronate, moniliform-like when completely extended; gonotheca large, pedicellate, cylindrical, giving rise to one or two medusae.  [details]

Spelling Original spelling was Aequoridae [details]
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Japanese オワンクラゲ科  [details]
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Family Aequoreidae
Family Aequoreidae