original description
Péron & Lesueur (1810). Histoire de la famille des Mollusques Ptéropodes. Caractères des dix genres qui doivent la composer.. <i>Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 15</i>: 57-69, pl. 1-2<br>, available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/annalesdumusum15mus
note:
Described as a pteropod but likely based on a decomposing ctenophore. Genus gains availability for Eschscholtz (1829), who also moved it from Pteropoda to Ctenophora. See Bennema & van Moorsel (2011...
Described as a pteropod but likely based on a decomposing ctenophore. Genus gains availability for Eschscholtz (1829), who also moved it from Pteropoda to Ctenophora. See Bennema & van Moorsel (2011) for discussion
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basis of record
van der Land, J. (2001). Ctenophora. <em>in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.</em> Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 122-123. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Mills, C. E. (2003). Phylum Ctenophora: list of all valid species names. , available online at http://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/Ctenolist.html [details]
additional source
Townsend, J. P.; Tassia, M. G.; Damian-Serrano, A.; Whelan, N. V.; Halanych, K. M.; Sweeney, A. M. (2020). A mesopelagic ctenophore representing a new family, with notes on family-level taxonomy in Ctenophora: Vampyroctena delmarvensis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Vampyroctenidae, fam. nov.). <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 50:34., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-020-01049-9 [details]
additional source
Bennema, F.P. & G.W.N.M. van Moorsel. (2011). The status of Callianira hexagona (Slabber, 1778) (Ctenophora). <em>Zool. Med. Leiden.</em> 85 (11), 30.xi.2011: 825-833, figs 1-4.— ISSN 0024-0672. [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Diagnosis from Eschscholtz (1829)
3. CALLINAIRA. Peron.
Corpus appendicibus lateralibus.
Tentacula ramosa.
Der Körper mit seitlichen flügelförmigen Anhangseln oder Kanten, auf welchen die Schwimmblättchen-Reihen sich befinden. Die Höhlen der Fangfäden öffnen sich an dem, dem Munde entgegengesetzten, Ende des Körpers; sie haben einzelne grofse Zweige. Der Mund steht röhrenförmig vor. (Es hat sich nicht gefügt, dafs ich eine Art dieser Gattung hätte selbst beobachten können.)
DeepL translation 20220629
The body has lateral wing-shaped appendages or edges, on which the rows of webbed leaves are located. The cavities of the tentacles open at the end of the body opposite the mouth; they have individual large branches. The mouth protrudes tubularly. (It did not happen that I could have observed a species of this genus myself). [details]
Taxonomic remark Callianira removed from Mertensiidae L. Agassiz, 1860 based on findings of Townsend et al 2020 and Bennema & van Moorsel 2011 [details]