Bougainvilliidae

Bougainvilliidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hydrozoa
Order:	Anthoathecata
Suborder:	Anthomedusae
Family:	Bougainvilliidae Lütken, 1850
Genera
See text ^[1]
Synonyms
^[1] Atractylidae Hincks, 1868 Bimeridae Allman, 1872 Clavopsellidae Thiel, 1962 Dicorynidae Allman, 1864 Hippocrenidae McCrady, 1959 Lizusidae Haeckel, 1879 Margelidae Haeckel, 1879 Nemopsidae L.Agassiz, 1862 Pachycordylini Cockerell, 1911 Thamnostomidae Haeckel, 1879

Bougainvilliidae is a family of marine hydroids in the class Hydrozoa. Members of the family are found worldwide.^[2] There are sixteen accepted genera and about ninety three species.^[3]

Description

Hydroids in this family can be solitary or colonial. When colonial, the hydranths or hydroid polyps are either linked by stolons or are branched. The hydranths have one or more whorls of fine tentacles. The gonophores are free-living medusae or are fixed sporosacs. The medusae are bell-shaped with a circular mouth and branched oral tentacles inserted above the rim of the mouth, ending in clusters of nematocysts.^[1]

Genera

Bimeria Wright, 1859
Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830
Chiarella Maas, 1897
Dicoryne Allman, 1859
Garveia Wright, 1859
Koellikerina Kramp, 1939
Millardiana Wedler & Larson, 1986 (tentatively placed here)
Nemopsis Agassiz, 1849
Nubiella Bouillon, 1980
Pachycordyle Weismann, 1883
Parawrightia Warren, 1907
Rhizorhagium M. Sars, 1874
Silhouetta Millard & Bouillon, 1973
Thamnostoma Haeckel, 1879
Velkovrhia Matjasic & Sket, 1971 ^[1]

References

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