A history of the British zoophytes

Johnston, George

doi:10.5962/bhl.title.19627

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“…The family Lucernariidae was proposed by Johnston (1847) , including only the genus Lucernaria . Whereas Clark (1863) used the name Lucernariae for all of Stauromedusae, Haeckel (1879) was actually the originator of the name Stauromedusae, in which he placed the family Lucernariidae, divided into two subfamilies: 1) Haliclystidae, including the genera Haliclystus and Lucernaria ; and 2) Halicyathidae, including Halicyathus (= Halimocyathus ) and Craterolophus ( Fig.…”

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Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)

Miranda

Hirano

Mills

et al. 2016

PeerJ

139

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Staurozoan classification is highly subjective, based on phylogeny-free inferences, and suborders, families, and genera are commonly defined by homoplasies. Additionally, many characters used in the taxonomy of the group have ontogenetic and intraspecific variation, and demand new and consistent assessments to establish their correct homologies. Consequently, Staurozoa is in need of a thorough systematic revision. The aim of this study is to propose a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis for Staurozoa, providing the first phylogenetic classification for the group. According to our working hypothesis based on a combined set of molecular data (mitochondrial markers COI and 16S, and nuclear markers ITS, 18S, and 28S), the traditional suborders Cleistocarpida (animals with claustrum) and Eleutherocarpida (animals without claustrum) are not monophyletic. Instead, our results show that staurozoans are divided into two groups, herein named Amyostaurida and Myostaurida, which can be distinguished by the absence/presence of interradial longitudinal muscles in the peduncle, respectively. We propose a taxonomic revision at the family and genus levels that preserves the monophyly of taxa. We provide a key for staurozoan genera and discuss the evolution of the main characters used in staurozoan taxonomy.

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Systematics of stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa)

Miranda

Hirano

Mills

et al. 2016

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139

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“…Species of Monotheca reported from Australia are Monotheca obliqua (Johnston, 1847), Monotheca australis (Kirchenpauer, 1876), Monotheca compressa (Bale, 1882), Monotheca hyalina (Bale, 1882), Monotheca pulchella (Bale, 1882), Monotheca spinulosa (Bale, 1882), Monotheca aurita (Bale, 1888), Monotheca flexuosa (Bale, 1894), Monotheca obesa (Blackburn, 1938) and Monotheca togata (Watson, 1973). Four of these species -M. hyalina, M. pulchella, M. spinulosa and M. togata -are also reported from New Zealand (Vervoort and Watson 2003).…”

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Review of the genus Monotheca (Hydrozoa: Leptolida) from Australia with description of a new species and a note on Monothecella Stechow, 1923

Watson¹

2011

Mem. Mus. Vic.

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Monotheca Nutting, 1900 is a genus with few known species worldwide. It is an artificial genus, as some species of the Plumulariidae sometimes have one or two hydrocladial hydrothecae and are thus borderline between Monotheca and Plumularia. This review considers only Australian species with consistently monothecate hydrocladia; species with more than one hydrotheca on the hydrocladium are considered to belong to Plumularia. Ten species referrable to Monotheca are reported from southeast Australia; three are synonymised here in other species, four are presently known to be endemic to Australia and one species, Monotheca amphibola, is described as new. The gonosome of Monotheca togata is described for the first time. Monothecella is synonymised in Monotheca. A key to the Australian species of Monotheca is given.

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“…Johnston (1847), to use the term zoophyte for "…any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the SCI. MAR.,69 (Suppl. MARRASÉ and P. ABELLÓ (eds.…”

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confidence: 99%