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  Order Anthoathecata

Suborder Capitata

    Family Moerisiidae
    Family Asyncorynidae
    Family Cladocorynidae
    Family Cladonematidae
    Family Corynidae
    Family Halimedusidae
    Family Hydrocorynidae
    Family Milleporidae
    Family Pennariidae
    Family Porpitidae
    Family Pseudosolanderiidae
    Family Rosalindidae
    Family Solanderiidae
    Family Sphaerocorynidae
    Family Teissieridae
    Family Tricyclusidae
    Family Zancleidae
    Family Zancleopsidae

Taxon Information

The Suborder Capitata has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

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

Literature Records

• Capitata, "375 valid species ... paraphyletic" (Daly et al., 2007).
• Capitata, (Jankowski, 2001).

Bibliography

• 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]
• Jankowski, T. 2001. The freshwater medusae of the world — a taxonomic and systematic literature study with some remarks on other inland water jellyfish. Hydrobiologia 462: 91-113. [Available online]

Web Pages

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• WikiSpecies
• World Hydrozoa Database