original description
Brinckmann A. (1965). The biology and development of Rhysia autumnalis gen. nov., sp. nov. (Anthomedusae-Athecatae, Rhysiidae fam. nov.). <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 43 : 941-952.
page(s): 942 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record
RAMS Hydrozoa checklist from Dr. Álvaro L. Peña Cantero (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Diagnosis Hydroid stolonal or sessile, polymorphic; hydrorhiza tubular, covered with perisarc; gastrozooid naked, columnar, with either one whorl of filiform tentacles or with nematocyst clusters and a few thick filiform tentacles around hypostome; dactylozooids, when present, covered with perisarc up to capitate tip; gonads on hydranth resembling gastrozooid, on one side of the body, no gonophores; male hydranth with 3 or 4 filiform tentacles, female hydrants with or without tentacles and transforming into a sporosac-like structure with the endoderm forming a spadix, one egg, developing into a planula. [details]
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