Hydra Linnaeus, 1758
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E27F25-FFD5-FFE4-DCFF-FC7472B04ACF |
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Genus Hydra Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL
Hydra Linnaeus, 1758: 816 View in CoL View Cited Treatment .
Type species. None validly designated.
Diagnosis. With the characters of the family.
Remarks. Confusion exists over the type species of Hydra Linnaeus, 1758 , in part because of significant nomenclatural problems mentioned above. That designation has been assigned to Hydra viridis Linnaeus, 1767 by Annandale (1911), to H. vulgaris Pallas, 1766 by Apstein (1915), and to Hydra oligactis Pallas, 1766 by Petersen (1990), but all are ineligible because they were not among the originally included nominal species in the genus when it was founded by Linnaeus (1758).
Campbell (1989) provided a history of research on Hydra and reviewed European species of the genus. While this fresh water genus is represented on few oceanic islands ( Jankowski et al. 2008), it has long been known to occur on Hawaii ( Mumford 1940).
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Hydra Linnaeus, 1758
Calder, Dale R. 2010 |