Rhodaliidae is a family of siphonophores. In Japanese they are called ヒノマルクラゲ (hinomarukurage).[5]

Rhodaliidae
"Dromalia alexandri"
Dromalia alexandri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophorae
Suborder: Physonectae
Family: Rhodaliidae
Haeckel, 1888[1]
Type genus
Rhodalia
Haeckel, 1888
Genera and species
Synonyms[2]

Rhodaliids have a characteristic gas-secreting structure called aurophore.[2] Below the enlarged pneumatophore (float), the siphosome and nectosome are contracted into a complex.[2] Rhodaliids have a benthic lifestyle and use their tentacles to attach themselves to the seafloor.[2]

Genera and species edit

Rhodaliidae contains the following subtaxa:[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Haeckel, E. (1888). Report on the Siphonophorae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 28 (part 77): i-viii, 1-380, pl. 1-50., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-77/README.htm
  2. ^ a b c d e Schuchert, P. (2019). World Hydrozoa Database. Rhodaliidae Haeckel, 1888. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135350 on 2019-04-03
  3. ^ Fewkes, J. W. 1886a. Report on the medusae collected by the U. S. F. C. Steamer Albatross, in the region of the Gulf Stream, in 1883-84. - United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries 12: 927-980, pls 1-10., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53809#page/1053/mode/1up page(s): 971
  4. ^ Haeckel, E. (1888). System der Siphonophoren auf phylogenetischer Grundlage entworfen. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. 22: 1-46., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43887#page/11/mode/1up page(s): 43
  5. ^ Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21. available online at http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/bismal

Further reading edit

  • Pugh, P. R. (1983). Benthic Siphonophores: A Review of the Family Rhodaliidae (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 301(1105): 165-300. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1983.0025