Aeginidae
| Aeginidae | |
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| Bathykorus bouilloni | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Narcomedusae |
| Family: | Aeginidae Gegenbauer, 1857 [1] |
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Aeginidae is a family of jellyfish in the order Narcomedusae. Most of the genera include only a single species.
Characteristics
Jellyfish with dome-shaped bells and tentacles set above the undulating margin of the bell. There are gastric pouches containing the gonads situated between the tentacles, the number of pouches being greater than the number of tentacles. The pouches extend below the points of origin of the primary tentacles. Some genera have a peripheral canal system and others do not, and some have secondary tentacles.[2]
Genera and species
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera and species:[1]
- Aegina Eschscholtz, 1829
- Aegina citrea Eschscholtz, 1829
- Aeginodiscus Haeckel, 1879
- Aeginodiscus actinodiscus Haeckel, 1879
- Aeginopsis Brandt, 1835
- Aeginopsis laurentii Brandt, 1838
- Aeginura Haeckel, 1879
- Aeginura beebei Bigelow, 1940
- Aeginura grimaldii Maas, 1904
- Bathykorus Raskoff, 2010
- Bathykorus bouilloni Raskoff, 2010
- Jubanyella Fuentes & Pages, 2006
- Jubanyella plemmyris Fuentes & Pages, 2006
- Otoporpa Xu & Zhang, 1978
- Otoporpa polystriata Hsu & Chang, 1978
- Solmundella
- Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
- Tetraotoporpae Zamponi & Suarez Morales, 1991
- Tetraotoporpae siankaanensis Zamponi & Suarez Morales, 1991
References
- 1 2 Aeginidae World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ↑ Order Narcomedusae - Haeckel, 1879 The Hydrozoa Directory. Retrieved 06 November 2011.
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