Taxonomic notes on Hydroidomedusae (Cnidaria) from South China Sea III: Family Rathkeidae and Zancleopsidae
Author
Wang, Chunguang
Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen 361005, China
Author
Xu, Zhenzu
College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
Author
Huang, Jiaqi
College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
Author
Guo, Donghui
College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
Author
Lin, Mao
Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen 361005, China & Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Hangzhou 310012, China
Author
Xia, Zhen
Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, Guangzhou 510760, China Corresponding author, E-mail: guodh @ xmu. edu. cn
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Zoological Systematics
2016
41
4
392
403
journal article
10.11865/zs.201644
2095-6827
5366513
DDA913E3-9578-476B-AFFB-E6C5392C430D
Family
Zancleopsidae
Bouillon, 1978
Zancleopsidae
Bouillon, 1978: 284–285
; Bouillon & Boero, 2000: 125;
Bouillon
et al
, 2006: 216
;
Xu
et al
., 2014: 362
.
Type
species:
Zancleopsis
Hartlaub, 1907
.
Diagnosis. Umberlla conical or dome-shaped, without apical chamber; 2–4 capitate marginal tentacles, with or without lateral capitate branches; marginal bulbs clasping umbrella margin, with four or two adaxial hemispherical projection armed with cnidocysts; manubrium broadly flask-shaped, with quadratic or cruciform base; mouth square or circular, with or without fain lips; gonads 4, interradial with deep interradial grooves which may divided them into 8 adradial patches or gonads surrounding manubrium; with or without ocelli on marginal bulbs or on proximal part of tentacles. Hydroids unknown.
Remarks. Before the family was erected by
Bouillon (1978)
, several families were proposed for the genus, such as
Cladonematidae
(
Hartlaub, 1907
;
Mayer, 1910
),
Zancleidae
(
Kramp, 1959
,
1961
) and
Pandeidae
(
Kramp, 1965
,
1968
). The systematic position of the
Zancleopsis
was outlined by
Bouillon (1978)
, because of without exumbrellar cnidocyst pouches or tracks and tentacles capitate wand without branches, which are different with the latter three families. Thus,
Bouillon (1978)
erected a new family
Zancleopsidae
in the order
Capitata
for the genus
Zancleopsis
and another new genus
Dicnida
.
Key to medusa of all known
Zancleopsidae
genera.
1. With ocelli; gonads interradial, with deep interradial grooves ................................................................
Zancleopsis
Hartlaub, 1907
*
Without ocelli; gonads surrounding manubrium in adults................................................................................
Dicnida
Bouillon, 1978
*
Present in
China
Sea.