UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO)

URMO taxon details

Medusozoa

AphiaID

1740301 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1740301)

Classification

Authority

Petersen, 1979

Status

accepted

Rank

Subphylum

Parent

Cnidaria

Direct children (5)

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Class Cubozoa
Class Hydrozoa
Class Scyphozoa
Class Staurozoa
Class Cubomedusae accepted as Cubozoa

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh

Original description

Petersen, K. W. (1979). Development of coloniality in Hydrozoa. In: G. Larwood & B. Rosen, eds, Biology and systematics of colonial organisms. Symposium Systematics Association. 11: 105-139. [details]

Taxonomic citation

URMO (2025). Medusozoa. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1740301 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Medusozoa. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1740301 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2024-02-29 07:57:50Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2024-05-07 06:53:57Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

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Sources (2)

original description Petersen, K. W. (1979). Development of coloniality in Hydrozoa. In: G. Larwood & B. Rosen, eds, Biology and systematics of colonial organisms. Symposium Systematics Association. 11: 105-139. [details]

status source Collins, A. G. (2009). Recent insights into cnidarian phylogeny. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. 38: 139-149. [details]