Some anthoathecate hydroids and limnopolyps (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Hawaiian archipelago 2590
Author
Calder, Dale R.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-08-31
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2590.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2590.1.1
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Order
Limnomedusae
Kramp, 1938
Limnomedusae
Kramp, 1938: 107
.
Diagnosis.
Hydrozoa
with polyps solitary or primitively colonial; hydranths small to minute, morphologically simple, sessile, lacking hydrothecae; hypostome, mouth, and gastric cavity present or absent; tentacles and perisarcal sheath present or absent; asexual reproduction frequent, by frustules, or frustule-like buds, or cysts.
Gonophores fixed or free eumedusoids, or medusae. Medusae, when present, with hemispherical to discoidal umbrella; tentacles hollow, lacking basal bulbs; marginal sense organs, when present, comprising internal statocysts; gonads on radial canals or manubrium.
Remarks.
The history and phylogeny of
Limnomedusae
Kramp, 1938
has been reviewed by
Daly
et al
. (2007)
and
Collins
et al
. (2008)
.
Bouillon
et al
. (2006)
included 21 genera in the family, many of them poorly known (
Jankowski 2001
) and over half (12) being monotypic.