Thecocodium Bouillon, 1967
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https://doi.org/ 10.35929/RSZ.0049 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8382D1CA-7C0E-4B1C-9591-4CEAA2F296FB |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5639990 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D0118A7C-5B1B-0003-FC68-FE68FBAF7CA8 |
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Felipe |
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Thecocodium Bouillon, 1967 |
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Genus Thecocodium Bouillon, 1967 View in CoL View at ENA
Thecocodium Bouillon, 1967: 1119 View in CoL ;
type species Thecocodium brieni Bouillon, 1967 View in CoL by original designation.
Diagnosis: Medusa with lobed bell margin, with marginal nematocyst ring from which usually arise several centripetal nematocyst bands or exumbrellar rows of refringent spots. Four radial canals and hollow circular canal, short mesenteries. Four marginal tentacles with bases embedded in umbrellar furrows, no ocelli. Manubrium with short, perradial lips ending in nematocyst clusters; gonads interradial on manubrium.
Hydroid with reticulate, tubular hydrorhiza, covered by perisarc. Polyps on stolons, sessile, naked, polymorphic, usually with gastro-gonozooids and dactylozooids. Gastro-gonozooids cylindrical or club-shaped, without tentacles, hypostome with nematocysts. Dactylozooids thin, solid gastrodermis, terminal group of capitate tentacles. Gonophores fixed sporosacs or free medusae developing in a single whorl on gonozooids. Cnidome of polyp includes desmonemes.
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Thecocodium Bouillon, 1967
| Schuchert, Peter & Collins, Richard 2021 |
Thecocodium
| Bouillon J. 1967: 1119 |