WoRMS taxon details
Lovenellidae Russell, 1953
1611 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1611)
accepted
Family
Eucheilotidae Bouillon, 1984 · unaccepted (synonym)
Phialidae Haeckel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
- Genus Eucheilota McCrady, 1859
- Genus Hydranthea Hincks, 1868
- Genus Lovenella Hincks, 1868
- Genus Paralovenia Bouillon, 1984
- Genus Campalecium Torrey, 1902 accepted as Mitrocomium Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868 (synonym)
- Genus Dipleuron Brooks, 1883 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868 (synonym)
- Genus Haleciella Hadži, 1914 accepted as Campalecium Torrey, 1902 accepted as Mitrocomium Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868 (possible synonym)
- Genus Mitrocomium Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868
- Genus Oceanopsis Fewkes, 1883 accepted as Lovenella Hincks, 1868 (synonym)
- Genus Phialium Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Eucheilota McCrady, 1859 (synonym)
- Genus Umbrellaria Zoja, 1893 accepted as Hydranthea Hincks, 1868 (synonym)
marine, brackish, terrestrial
Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. [details] Available for editors 
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Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon
Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Lovenellidae Russell, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1611 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Eucheilotidae Bouillon, 1984) Bouillon, J., 1984a. Révision de la famille des Phialuciidae (Kramp, 1955) (Leptomedusae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria), avec un essai de classification des Thecatae-Leptomedusae Indo-Malayan Zool. 1 1: 1-24.
page(s): 17 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Phialidae Haeckel, 1879) 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): 163, 180 [details]
[request]original description (of Eucheilotidae Bouillon, 1984) Bouillon, J., 1984a. Révision de la famille des Phialuciidae (Kramp, 1955) (Leptomedusae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria), avec un essai de classification des Thecatae-Leptomedusae Indo-Malayan Zool. 1 1: 1-24.
page(s): 17 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Phialidae Haeckel, 1879) 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): 163, 180 [details]
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Diagnosis Medusa manubrium short; no gastric peduncle; no excretory pores; four simple radial canals; marginal tentacles hollow, with lateral cirri; no marginal cirri; gonads on radial canals, not reaching manubrium; 4, 8, 12 or more statocysts when adult; no ocelli.Hydroid colony stolonal or erect sympodial; hydrotheca pedicellate, elongate, everted-conical to bell-shaped, with diaphragm; operculum conical, formed either by many triangular plates in embayments of hydrothecal margin and demarcated from hydrothecal wall by crease line, or pleated continuation of the hydrothecal wall; hydrothecae in old specimens often reduced to a collar-shaped sheath around hydranth base; with or without intertentacular web; gonophores free medusae, gonothecae peduncled. [details]
Taxonomic remark Family scope sensu Russell, not Bouillon [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | コモチクラゲ科 [from synonym]コマヒメコップガヤ科 | [details] |
