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  Phylum Cnidaria

Subphylum Medusozoa

    Class Hydrozoa -- Wisconsin!
    Class Polypodiozoa -- midwestern North America.
    Class Cubozoa
    Class Scyphozoa
    Class Staurozoa

Taxon Information

The Subphylum Medusozoa has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

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

Literature Records

• Medusozoa, (Pechenik, 2015).
• Medusozoa, (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
• Wikipedia