WoRMS taxon details
Proboscidactylidae Hand & Hendrickson, 1950
1615 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1615)
accepted
Family
- Genus Proboscidactyla Brandt, 1835
- Genus Dicranocanna Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Proboscidactyla Brandt, 1835 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, synonym)
- Genus Dyscannota Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Proboscidactyla Brandt, 1835 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, synonym)
- Genus Lar Gosse, 1857 accepted as Proboscidactyla Brandt, 1835
- Genus Misakia Uchida, 1927 accepted as Proboscidactyla Brandt, 1835 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Psythia Agassiz & Mayer, 1902 accepted as Proboscidactyla Brandt, 1835 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, synonym)
- Genus Willeta Haeckel, 1879 accepted as Proboscidactyla Brandt, 1835 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, synonym)
- Genus Willia L. Agassiz, 1862 accepted as Proboscidactyla Brandt, 1835 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, invalid emendation of Willsia)
- Genus Willsia Forbes, 1846 accepted as Proboscidactyla Brandt, 1835 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, terrestrial
Hand, C.; Hendrickson, J.R. (1950). A two-tentacled, commensal hydroid from California (Limnomedusae, Proboscidactyla). <em>Biol. Bull.</em> 99(1): 74-87.
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Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Proboscidactylidae Hand & Hendrickson, 1950. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1615 on 2025-05-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Hand, C.; Hendrickson, J.R. (1950). A two-tentacled, commensal hydroid from California (Limnomedusae, Proboscidactyla). <em>Biol. Bull.</em> 99(1): 74-87.
page(s): 76 [details] Available for editors [request]
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): 76 [details] Available for editors
[request]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]
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Diagnosis Hydroids sessile, hydrorhiza fromed by creeping naked stolons, epizooic on tubes sabellid polychaetes; hydranths polymorphic; gastrozooid with rounded hypostome separated from the body by a constriction and with large cluster of nematocysts that is somewhat shifted to one side, two filiform tentacles arising below hypostomial constriction, opposite to nematocyst cluster, thus giving bilateral symmetry; gonozooid and dactylozooid without tentacles, mouthless and smaller than gastrozooid; medusa buds very close to gonozooidal tip. Medusa mostly hemispherical; manubrium with four to six or more radial gastric lobes extending along proximal portions of radial canals; gonads surrounding manubrium and extending on gastric lobes; radial canals branched, obliterated canals sometimes present; usually no circular canal but a circular gastrodermal ring; numerous exumbrellar nematocyst clusters or bands alternating with tentacles; marginal tentacles hollow, with swollen hollow base connected to the lumen of radial canals. Cnidome with or without desmonemes. [details]
| Language | Name | |
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| Japanese | エダクダクラゲ科 | [details] |
