Russell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. page(s): 98 [details] Available for editors [request]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Zancleidae Russell, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22781 on 2025-07-18
original descriptionRussell, F.S., 1953. The medusae of the British Isles. Anthomedusae, Leptomedusae, Limnomedusae, Trachymedusae and Narcomedusae. : 1-530, pls. 1-35. page(s): 98 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description(ofHalocorynidae Picard, 1957)Picard, J. (1957). Étude sur les hydroïdes de la superfamille Pteronematoidea, 1. Généralités. <em>Bulletin de l'institut Océanographique.</em> 1106 : 1-12.[details]
basis of recordBouillon, 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]
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additional sourceBoero, F.; Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C. (2000). A survey of Zanclea, Halocoryne and Zanclella (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Anthomedusae, Zancleidae) with description of new species. Italian Journal of Zoology, 67: 93-124[details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Hydroids colonial, polyps issued from creeping stolons, sessile or with usually unbranched pedicel; polyps monomorphic or polymorphic; gastrozooids either with oral and aboral capitate tentacles, or with reduced capitate tentacles, or without tentacles; gonozooids and dactylozooids, when present, with capitate tentacles or these reduced to variable degrees. Perisarc enveloping hydranth pedicels and stolons a simple tube and not lamellar.
Medusa umbrella bell-shaped; four perradial exumbrellar nematocyst patches, these either oval, clavate, elongate or linear, usually containing stenoteles; mouth simple, circular, without oral tentacles; gonads usually as interradial pads on manubrium, rarely in a single mass encircling manubrium; four radial canals; marginal tentacles 0, 2 or 4, hollow, when present with numerous, long, stalked nematocytes (cnidophores) containing macrobasic euryteles; without ocelli. [details]