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  Suborder Capitata

Family Moerisiidae

    Genus Halmomises
    Genus Moerisia
    Genus Odessia

Taxon Information

The Family Moerisiidae 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

• Moerisiidae, [Palaearctic, Afrotropical; 2 salt lake species in 1 genus worldwide] (Jankowski et al., 2008).
• Moerisiidae, [3 genera, <10 species] (Daly et al., 2007).
• Moerisiidae, (Jankowski, 2001).

Bibliography

• Jankowski, T., A.G. Collins & R. Campbell. 2008. Global diversity of inland water cnidarians. Hydrobiologia 595: 35-40. [Available online]
• 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