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WoRMS taxon details
original description
Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35.
page(s): 98 [details] Available for editors  [request]
original description
(of Halocorynidae Picard, 1957) Picard, J. (1957). Étude sur les hydroïdes de la superfamille Pteronematoidea, 1. Généralités. <em>Bulletin de l'institut Océanographique.</em> 1106 : 1-12. [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]
additional source
Boero, F.; Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C. (2000). A survey of Zanclea, Halocoryne and Zanclella (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Anthomedusae, Zancleidae) with description of new species. Italian Journal of Zoology, 67: 93-124 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Hydroids colonial, polyps issued from creeping stolons, sessile or with usually unbranched pedicel; polyps monomorphic or polymorphic; gastrozooids either with oral and aboral capitate tentacles, or with reduced capitate tentacles, or without tentacles; gonozooids and dactylozooids, when present, with capitate tentacles or these reduced to variable degrees. Perisarc enveloping hydranth pedicels and stolons a simple tube and not lamellar.
Medusa umbrella bell-shaped; four perradial exumbrellar nematocyst patches, these either oval, clavate, elongate or linear, usually containing stenoteles; mouth simple, circular, without oral tentacles; gonads usually as interradial pads on manubrium, rarely in a single mass encircling manubrium; four radial canals; marginal tentacles 0, 2 or 4, hollow, when present with numerous, long, stalked nematocytes (cnidophores) containing macrobasic euryteles; without ocelli.
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