original description
Haeckel, E. (1888). System der Siphonophoren auf phylogenetischer Grundlage entworfen. <em>Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft.</em> 22: 1-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12007523
page(s): 38 [details]
original description
(of Physophorae) Margulis, R. Ya. 1987. Siphonophora of the Southern Pacific (Coelenterata, Hydrozoa, Siphonophora). Vestn. Mosk. Univ. Ser. XVI Biol. 2: 24-28. (In Russian with English summary). [details]
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Siphonophorae with an apical pneumatophore and beneath it, a series of nectophores (swimming bells), except in the genus Athorybia which lacks nectophores, forming the nectosome. Two budding zones present in most species, one under the pneumatophore giving rise to the nectophores and the other at the basal end of the nectosome giving rise to the cormidia that form the siphosome. Cormidia with bracts, palpons, gastrozooids and gonophores. [details]
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed