Hydrozoa taxon details
Malagazziidae Bouillon, 1984
Octocannidae Haeckel, 1879 · uncertain > nomen dubium
- Genus Malagazzia Bouillon, 1984
- Genus Octophialucium Kramp, 1955
- Genus Tetracanna Goy, 1979
- Genus Octocanna Haeckel, 1879 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, terrestrial
Bouillon, J., 1984a. RĂ©vision 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): 10 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Malagazziidae Bouillon, 1984. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22797 on 2025-04-05
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Bouillon, J., 1984a. RĂ©vision 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): 10 [details] Available for editors
original description (of Octocannidae 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): 213 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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original description (of Octocannidae 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): 213 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]




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Diagnosis Medusa with small manubrium; no gastric peduncle; four to eight, sometimes up to 12 radial canals; gonads completely surrounding radial canals, separated from manubrium; tentacle bulbs with adaxial excretory papilla; no permanent rudimentary marginal, only transient ones; with closed statocysts; no ocelli; no cirri.Hydroid colony stolonal; hydrotheca pedicellate, with a conical operculum formed by numerous convergent segments that are not clearly demarcated from hydrothecal wall; hydranth with intertentacular web; gonothecae claviform, arising from stolons.
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