MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Lovenellidae Russell, 1953

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Lovenellidae Russell, 1953

Family Lovenellidae, typical medusa

AphiaID

1611 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1611)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Leptothecata

Original name

Lovenellidae Russell, 1953

Synonymised names

Eucheilotidae Bouillon, 1984 · unaccepted (synonym)

Phialidae Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Genus Eucheilota McCrady, 1859
Genus Hydranthea Hincks, 1868
Genus Lovenella Hincks, 1868
Genus Paralovenia Bouillon, 1984
Genus Campalecium Torrey, 1902 accepted as Mitrocomium Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868 (synonym)
Genus Dipleuron Brooks, 1883 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868 (synonym)
Genus Haleciella Hadži, 1914 accepted as Campalecium Torrey, 1902 accepted as Mitrocomium Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868 (possible synonym)
Genus Mitrocomium Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868
Genus Oceanopsis Fewkes, 1883 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868 (synonym)
Genus Phialium Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Eucheilota McCrady, 1859 (synonym)
Genus Umbrellaria Zoja, 1893 accepted as Hydranthea Hincks, 1868 (synonym)

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. [details] Available for editors

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Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon

Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Lovenellidae Russell, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1611 on 2024-11-26

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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2011-03-11 07:10:22Z

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original description Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Eucheilotidae Bouillon, 1984) Bouillon, J., 1984a. Révision de la famille des Phialuciidae (Kramp, 1955) (Leptomedusae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria), avec un essai de classification des Thecatae-Leptomedusae Indo-Malayan Zool. 1 1: 1-24.
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original description (of Phialidae 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): 163, 180 [details]

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

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Introduced: alien

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Diagnosis Medusa manubrium short; no gastric peduncle; no excretory pores; four simple radial canals; marginal tentacles hollow, with lateral cirri; no marginal cirri; gonads on radial canals, not reaching manubrium; 4, 8, 12 or more statocysts when adult; no ocelli.
Hydroid colony stolonal or erect sympodial; hydrotheca pedicellate, elongate, everted-conical to bell-shaped, with diaphragm; operculum conical, formed either by many triangular plates in embayments of hydrothecal margin and demarcated from hydrothecal wall by crease line, or pleated continuation of the hydrothecal wall; hydrothecae in old specimens often reduced to a collar-shaped sheath around hydranth base; with or without intertentacular web; gonophores free medusae, gonothecae peduncled. [details]

Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon [details]

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Language	Name
Japanese	コモチクラゲ科 [from synonym]コマヒメコップガヤ科	[details]

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Family Lovenellidae, typical medusa