Marine Species Traits - Sphaeronectes Huxley, 1859

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Sphaeronectes Huxley, 1859

Sphaeronectes koellikeri, mouth of Brunswick River, New South Wales, Australia

AphiaID

135381 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135381)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Sphaeronectes koellikeri Huxley, 1859 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Sphaeronectidae Huxley, 1859

Original name

Sphaeronectes Huxley, 1859

Synonymised names

Conophyes Leloup, 1934 · unaccepted (possible synonym)

Monophyes Claus, 1873 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Sphaeronectes bougisi Carré, 1968
Species Sphaeronectes brevitruncata (Chun, 1888)
Species Sphaeronectes christiansonae Pugh, 2009
Species Sphaeronectes fragilis Carré, 1968
Species Sphaeronectes gamulini Carré, 1968
Species Sphaeronectes haddocki Pugh, 2009
Species Sphaeronectes irregularis (Claus, 1873)
Species Sphaeronectes koellikeri Huxley, 1859
Species Sphaeronectes pagesi Lindsay, Grossmann & Minemizu, 2011
Species Sphaeronectes pughi Grossmann, Lindsay & Fuentes, 2012
Species Sphaeronectes tiburonae Pugh, 2009
Species Sphaeronectes gigantea Fewkes, 1889 accepted as Sphaeronectes koellikeri Huxley, 1859
Species Sphaeronectes gracilis (Claus, 1873) accepted as Sphaeronectes koellikeri Huxley, 1859 (synonym)
Species Sphaeronectes japonica (Stepanjants, 1967) accepted as Lensia japonica (Stepanjants, 1967) accepted as Sphaeronectes brevitruncata (Chun, 1888) (synonym)
Species Sphaeronectes köllikeri Huxley, 1859 accepted as Sphaeronectes koellikeri Huxley, 1859 (unaccepted spelling according to ICZN)
Species Sphaeronectes tasmanica Gershwin, Lewis, Gowlett-Holmes & Kloser, 2014 accepted as Sphaeronectes koellikeri Huxley, 1859 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Sphaeronectes truncata (Will, 1844) accepted as Sphaeronectes koellikeri Huxley, 1859 (possible synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

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., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10599749
page(s): 50 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). 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 2025-06-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Mapstone, Gill

2006-01-27 08:54:21Z

checked

Mapstone, Gill

2013-12-19 19:27:14Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2015-04-17 05:47:15Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description 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., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10599749
page(s): 50 [details]

original description (of Monophyes Claus, 1873) 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.
page(s): 258 [details]

original description (of Conophyes Leloup, 1934) Leloup E. (1934a). Siphonophores calycophorides de l'Ocean Atlantique tropical et austral. <em>Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique.</em> 10(6): 1-87. [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

redescription Pugh, P. R. 2009. A review of the family Sphaeronectidae (class Hydrozoa, order Siphonophora), with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 2147: 1-48., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/1/zt02147p048.pdf [details]