North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

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Staurocladia Hartlaub, 1917

Staurocladia vallentini; Magellan Region, diameter 3 mm including tentacles

AphiaID

117091 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117091)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Eleutheria vallentini Browne, 1902 accepted as Staurocladia vallentini (Browne, 1902) (type by original designation)

Parent

Cladonematidae Gegenbaur, 1857

Original name

Staurocladia Hartlaub, 1917

Synonymised names

Cnidonema Gilchrist, 1919 · unaccepted (synonym)

Wandelia Bedot, 1908 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Staurocladia acuminata (Edmonson, 1930)
Species Staurocladia alternata (Edmonson, 1930)
Species Staurocladia bilateralis (Edmonson, 1930)
Species Staurocladia capensis (Gilchrist, 1919)
Species Staurocladia charcoti (Bedot, 1908)
Species Staurocladia dzilamensis Ahuatzin-HernÃ¡ndez et al., 2024
Species Staurocladia haswelli (Briggs, 1920)
Species Staurocladia oahuensis (Edmonson, 1930)
Species Staurocladia portmanni Brinckmann, 1964
Species Staurocladia schizogena Bouillon, 1978
Species Staurocladia ulvae Bouillon, 1978
Species Staurocladia vallentini (Browne, 1902)
Species Staurocladia wellingtoni Schuchert, 1996
Species Staurocladia hodgsoni (Browne, 1910) accepted as Staurocladia charcoti (Bedot, 1908) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Staurocladia kerguelensis (Gilchrist, 1918) accepted as Staurocladia charcoti (Bedot, 1908) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Hartlaub, C., 1917. XII. Craspedote Medusen. I. Teil. 4. Lief.: Familie V. Williadae. Nord. Plankton 19 : 365-479. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Staurocladia Hartlaub, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117091 on 2025-04-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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van der Land, Jacob

2009-04-28 06:22:10Z

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Schuchert, Peter

2010-02-09 12:28:23Z

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Schuchert, Peter

2014-02-01 15:46:41Z

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Schuchert, Peter

2024-02-24 13:20:59Z

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Schuchert, Peter

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Nomenclature

original description Hartlaub, C., 1917. XII. Craspedote Medusen. I. Teil. 4. Lief.: Familie V. Williadae. Nord. Plankton 19 : 365-479. [details]

original description (of Cnidonema Gilchrist, 1919) Gilchrist J.D.F. (1919). On a species of the crawling medusa, Eleutheria , from the Cape of Good Hope (Cnidonema capensis g. et sp. n.) and the southern Eleutheridae. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 63, New Series, (4): 509-529, pl.30.
page(s): 525 [details]

original description (of Wandelia Bedot, 1908) Bedot, M. (1908). Sur un animal pÃ©lagique de la rÃ©gion antarctique. ExpÃ©diition antarctique franÃ§aise. 3. 1-7, plate., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/7063 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Schuchert, P. (2006). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Capitata Part 1. Revue suisse de Zoologie. 113: 325-410.
page(s): 386 [details]

Other

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

From editor or global species database

Diagnosis Hydroid stolonal or sessile, hydranths with an oral whorl of capitate tentacles, with or without aboral filiform tentacles; medusa buds borne singly on hydranth body immediately above filiform tentacles or in similar position when these are absent.
Medusa adapted to a crawling and walking mode of life, exceptionally still able to swim; without brood-chamber above manubrium; with or without continuous or interrupted nematocyst ring along margin; gonads around manubrium or developed on manubrial protrusions; with six to eleven radial canals, some bifurcating shortly distal to manubrium; mouth circular with or without nematocyst knobs; with up to 60 marginal tentacles, dichotomous, upper branch with several nematocyst clusters, lower with adhesive organ; often asexual reproduction by medusa budding or by fission; with abaxial ocelli at tentacle base.
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