Some anthoathecate hydroids and limnopolyps (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Hawaiian archipelago 2590
Author
Calder, Dale R.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-08-31
2590
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1
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2590.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2590.1.1
11755334
Subclass
Hydroidolina
Collins, 2000
Hydroidolina
Collins, 2000: 21
.
Diagnosis.
Hydrozoa
with polyps and medusae as significant and conspicuous stages in the life cycle (although some species exclusively polypoid or medusoid), often metagenetic except in siphonophores; polypoid stages, when present, usually polymorphic; medusae frequently reduced, forming parts of a highly polymorphic colony in siphonophores; medusa stage usually with true tentacular bulbs, ocelli present or absent, free ecto-endodermal statocysts lacking; planula larvae, when present, usually with cnidoblasts, glandular cells, neural cells, and interstitial cells, most often settling and becoming benthic except in
Porpitidae
and
Margelopsidae (Anthoathecata)
and holopelagic Siphonophora.
Remarks.
For discussion of the subclass
Hydroidolina
Collins, 2000
, and of the subclass
Trachylina
Haeckel, 1879
as currently used in hydrozoan classification, see
Collins (2000)
,
Marques
& Collins (2004)
,
Daly
et al
. (2007)
, and
Cartwright
et al
. (2008)
.
Hydroidolina
encompasses the hydrozoan orders
Anthoathecata
Cornelius, 1992
,
Leptothecata
Cornelius, 1992
, and Siphonophorae
Eschscholtz, 1829
.