Pennariidae McCrady, 1859

Watson, Jeanette E., 2015, Five athecate hydroids (hydrozoa: anthoathecata) from south-eastern australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73, pp. 19-26 : 24

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2015.73.03

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10666251

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA87E6-5C40-6A53-F6F3-2AD7FD10DFAF

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scientific name

Pennariidae McCrady, 1859
status

 

Family Pennariidae McCrady, 1859 View in CoL

Diagnosis. (modified after Calder 2010). Capitate hydroids with erect colonies; stems monosiphonic, branches giving rise to hydranth pedicels, perisarc firm. Hydranth naked, spindle-shaped, with an aboral whorl of long filiform tentacles semicapitate distally, an oral whorl of short, capitate tentacles. Eumedusa without manubrium, with four radial canals and four rudimentary tentacles bulbs, velum not penetrated.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Anthoathecata

Family

Pennariidae

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