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  Subphylum Medusozoa

Class Hydrozoa (hydroids)

    Subclass Hydroidolina -- Wisconsin!
    Subclass Trachylinae -- Wisconsin!

Taxon Information

The Class Hydrozoa 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

• Hydrozoa, "Seven orders, with more than 3,000 species." (Pechenik, 2015).
• Hydrozoa, (Jankowski et al., 2008).
• Hydrozoa, "approximately 3,500 valid species" (Daly et al., 2007).
• Hydrozoa, (Jankowski, 2001).

Bibliography

• Pechenik, J.A. 2015. Biology of the Invertebrates, 7th edition. McGraw-Hill, NewYork.. 606 pp.
• 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]

Student Essays

• "Ecological and Economic Impacts of Freshwater Cnidarians" by Eric Brandt (BIOL/WATR 361, Fall 2013 )

Web Pages

• A Wisconsin Bestiary
• Animal Diversity Web
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• The Hydrozoa Directory
• Tree of Life
• WikiSpecies
• Wikipedia
• World Hydrozoa Database
• World Register of Marine Species