Integrative systematics illuminates the relationships in two sponge-associated hydrozoan families (Capitata: Sphaerocorynidae and Zancleopsidae)
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Maggioni, Davide
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Schuchert, Peter
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Arrigoni, Roberto
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Hoeksema, Bert W.
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Huang, Danwei
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Strona, Giovanni
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Seveso, Davide
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Berumen, Michael L.
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Montalbetti, Enrico
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Collins, Richard
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Galli, Paolo
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Montano, Simone
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Contributions to Zoology
2021
2021-11-02
90
487
525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18759866-bja10023
journal article
10.1163/18759866-BJA10023
1875-9866
8343324
Family
Sphaerocorynidae Prévot, 1959
Diagnosis:
Colonies stolonal or erect; hydrocauli unbranched or sparingly branched, with terminal hydranths; perisarc thin, reaching hydranth; hydranth pyriform, with bulbous base and proboscis-like hypostome; no oral tentacles, but single, or partially fused capitate tentacles in whorls around broadest part of body; gonophores arising above or among tentacles as free medusae or fixed eumedusoids. Eumedusoid or free medusa with thick bell-shaped or conical umbrella; with or without apical projection, when present conical or dome-shaped, with broad apical chamber; manubrium flask-shaped, quadrate, or cruciform, mouth simple, round or cruciform; four tentacles, when present, with adaxial, evenly distributed, or spirally arranged nematocyst clusters, with a terminal, ellipsoid or spherical capitation; with or without abaxial ocelli; gonads adradial, confluent in perradii in mature specimens.