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  Subclass Hydroidolina

Order Leptothecata (+ Leptomedusae)

    Family Aequoreidae
    Family Barcinididae
    Family Blackfordiidae
    Family Bonneviellidae
    Family Campanulariidae
    Family Campanulinidae
    Family Cirrholoveniidae
    Family Clathrozoidae
    Family Dipleurosomatidae
    Family Eirenidae
    Family Haleciidae
    Family Hebellidae
    Family Lafoeidae
    Family Laodiceidae
    Family Lineolariidae
    Family Lovenellidae
    Family Malagazziidae
    Family Melicertidae
    Family Mitrocomidae
    Family Octocannoididae
    Family Orchistomatidae
    Family Palaequoreidae
    Family Phialellidae
    Family Phialuciidae
    Family Sertulariidae
    Family Sugiuridae
    Family Syntheciidae
    Family Teclaiidae
    Family Thyroscyphidae
    Family Tiarannidae
    Family Tiaropsidae

Taxon Information

The Order Leptothecata is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Leptothecata, (Pechenik, 2015).
• Leptomedusae, (Pechenik, 2015).
• Leptothecata, "approximately 2,000 valid species" (Daly et al., 2007).

Bibliography

• Pechenik, J.A. 2015. Biology of the Invertebrates, 7th edition. McGraw-Hill, NewYork.. 606 pp.
• Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriguez, S.L. Romano & J.L. Stake. 2007. The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa 1668: 127-182. [Available online]

Web Pages

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Hydrozoa Database