WoRMS taxon details
Trachymedusae
16350 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:16350)
Haeckel, 1866
accepted
Order
Trachomedusae · unaccepted (spelling variant)
- Family Halicreatidae Fewkes, 1886
- Family Petasidae Haeckel, 1879
- Family Ptychogastriidae Mayer, 1910
- Family Rhopalonematidae Russell, 1953
- Family Aglanthidae Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Rhopalonematidae Russell, 1953 (not in use.)
- Family Aglauridae L. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Rhopalonematidae Russell, 1953 (not in use)
- Family Halicreasidae Fewkes, 1886 accepted as Halicreatidae Fewkes, 1886 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling, incorrect family name formation)
- Family Halicreidae Fewkes, 1886 accepted as Halicreatidae Fewkes, 1886 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Family Leuckartidae L. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Geryoniidae Eschscholtz, 1829 (synonym)
- Family Liriopidae Haeckel, 1864 accepted as Geryoniidae Eschscholtz, 1829 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, synonym)
- Family Pectyllidae Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Ptychogastriidae Mayer, 1910 (not in use)
- Family Persidae Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Rhopalonematidae Russell, 1953 (not in use)
- Family Ptychogastridae Mayer, 1910 accepted as Ptychogastriidae Mayer, 1910 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling)
- Family Trachynemidae Gegenbaur, 1857 accepted as Rhopalonematidae Russell, 1953 (not in use)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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]
page(s): Vol. 2, p. LIX [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Trachymedusae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=16350 on 2025-07-18
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Nomenclature
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]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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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]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 硬クラゲ目 | [details] |
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