Diphyidae

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Diphyidae
Blaschka-Diphyes sp.-Musée zoologique de Strasbourg.jpg
Diphyes sp. from the Black Sea
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophorae
Suborder: Calycophorae
Family: Diphyidae
Quoy & Gaimard, 1827[1]
Genera
See text

The Diphyidae are a family of siphonophores. These are colonial siphonophores with two nectophores (swimming bells) arranged one behind the other. The front one includes a somatocyst (extension of the gastrovascular system), while the hind one does not. The somatocyst often contains an oil droplet for buoyancy control. A nectosac (central cavity with muscular walls) in each nectophore allows the organism to swim efficiently.[1]

Systematics[]

The World Register of Marine Species includes the following taxa in the family Diphyidae:[2]

  • Subfamily Quoy & Gaimard, 1827
    • Genus Chelophyes Totton, 1932
      • (Eschscholtz, 1829)
      • (Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908)
    • Genus Dimophyes Moser, 1925
      • Dimophyes arctica (Chun, 1897)
    • Genus Diphyes Cuvier, 1817
      • Moser, 1925
      • (Eschscholtz, 1825)
      • Huxley, 1859
      • Diphyes dispar Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821
    • Genus Huxley, 1859
      • (Huxley, 1859)
      • (Bigelow, 1911)
    • Genus Lensia Totton, 1932
      • Totton, 1941
      • Totton, 1941
      • Stepanjants, 1970
      • (Moser, 1917)
      • Totton, 1954
      • (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860)
      • Totton, 1965
      • Totton, 1941
      • Totton, 1941
      • (Bigelow, 1911)
      • Daniel & Daniel, 1963
      • Leloup, 1933
      • Totton, 1941
      • Totton, 1941
      • Totton, 1941
      • Totton, 1941
      • Totton, 1941
      • Totton, 1954
      • Totton, 1941
      • (Leloup, 1934)
      • (Moser, 1925)
      • Daniel, 1971
      • Pages, Flood & Youngbluth, 2006
      • (Chun, 1886)
      • (Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908)
      • Margulis, 1970
    • Genus Muggiaea Busch, 1851
  • Subfamily Pugh & Pages, 1995
    • Genus Pugh & Pages, 1995
      • (Totton, 1954)
  • Subfamily Totton, 1954
    • Genus Blainville, 1830
      • (Sars, 1846)
      • (Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908)
      • (Chun, 1888)
      • de Blainville, 1830
      • (Gegenbaur, 1854)

References[]

  1. ^ a b Schuchert, Peter (2015). "Diphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Diphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-03-17.


Stub icon

This Siphonophora-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

  • v
  • t
Retrieved from ""