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  Subclass Hydroidolina

Order Siphonophorae (+ Siphonophora)

    Suborder Calycophorae
    Suborder Cystonectae
    Suborder Physonectae

Taxon Information

The Order Siphonophorae 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

• Siphonophora, (Pechenik, 2015).
• Siphonophorae, "approximately 160 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