WoRMS taxon details
Australomedusidae Russell, 1971
266966 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266966)
accepted
Family
Platystomidae Zhang, 1982 · unaccepted (invalid name as based on invalid genus)
- Genus Australomedusa Russell, 1970
- Genus Octorathkea Uchida, 1927
- Genus Zhangiella Bouillon, Gravili, Pages, Gili & Boero, 2006
- Genus Platystoma Zhang, 1982 accepted as Zhangiella Bouillon, Gravili, Pages, Gili & Boero, 2006 (invalid homonym of Platystoma Meigen, 1803 [Diptera] and Platystoma Agassiz, 1829 [Pisces])
marine, brackish, terrestrial
recent only
Russell, F.S., 1971. On the female of the medusa Australomedusa baylii. J. Zool., Lond. 164 1: 133-135.
page(s): 135 [details]
page(s): 135 [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Australomedusidae Russell, 1971. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266966 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Russell, F.S., 1971. On the female of the medusa Australomedusa baylii. J. Zool., Lond. 164 1: 133-135.
page(s): 135 [details]
original description (of Platystomidae Zhang, 1982) Zhang J. (1982). A new family, genus and species of Anthomedusae from the northern South China Sea. <em>Acta Oceanologica Sinica.</em> 4: 209-214.
page(s): 212 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
page(s): 135 [details]
original description (of Platystomidae Zhang, 1982) Zhang J. (1982). A new family, genus and species of Anthomedusae from the northern South China Sea. <em>Acta Oceanologica Sinica.</em> 4: 209-214.
page(s): 212 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Medusa with simple mouth lips; four or exceptionally eight simple radial canals; perradial tentacles grouped into four clusters, with or without four groups of interradial tentacles or four interradial rudimentary bulbs; gonads on manubrium or on manubrium and partially on proximal part of radial canals; with or without ocelli. Cnidome includes microbasic euryteles and desmonemes.Hydroids stolonal, hydranth naked, with a single row of filiform oral tentacles near the middle of the body, hypostome extensible. [details]
