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  Class Staurozoa

Order Stauromedusae

    Suborder Cleistocarpida
    Suborder Eleutherocarpida

Taxon Information

The Order Stauromedusae 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

• Stauromedusae, "Two families containing about 50 species." (Pechenik, 2015).
• Stauromedusae, "approximately 50 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
• Wikipedia
• World Register of Marine Species