Family LYCHNORHIZIDAE Haeckel, 1880
Compiler and date details
June 2012 - Lisa-ann Gershwin
DRAFT RECORD
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Introduction
The family Lychnorhizidae comprises three genera, Anomalorhiza Light, 1921, Lychnorhiza Haeckel, 1880 and Pseudorhiza von Lendenfeld, 1882. Only members of Pseudorhiza have been reported from Australian waters and, in fact, Pseudorhiza as yet has not been reported outside Australia.
The family is distinctive in having a series of blind-ending, centripetal canals between the 16 radial canals, and large, frilly oral arms.
Diagnosis
Inscapulatae with centripetal, usually blindly ending and not anastomosing canals between the 16 radial canals; with broad, much folded mouth-arms.
Diagnosis References
Kramp, P.L. 1961. Synopsis of the medusae of the world. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 40: 1-469 [365]
History of changes
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| 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED |