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Hydrozoa taxon details
original description
Haeckel, E. (1866). Generelle morphologie der Organismen. Allgemeine Grundzüge der organischen Formen-wissenschaft, mechanisch begründet durch die von Charles Darwin reformirte Descendenztheorie, von Ernst Haeckel. Berlin,G. Reimer. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.3953 page(s): Vol. 2, p. LIX [details]
original description
(of Trachomedusae) Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. <em>Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena.</em> 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32605578 page(s): 234 [details]
basis of record
Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. <i>Thalassia Salent. 24</i>: 47-296 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Diagnosis Medusa bell hemispherical to higher than broad, margin not lobed, with ring of thickened tissue studded with nematocysts, mostly with 8 radial canals, 4, 6 or more than 8 also possible, gonads on radial canals or at junction of radial canals and manubrium, statocysts of endo-ectodermal origin. Polyp stage absent, development direct. Cnidome can include stenoteles. Predominantly forms of the open sea and deeper waters. [details]
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