Solmundaeginidae: Brief Summary
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Solmundaeginidae is a family of hydrozoans in the order Narcomedusae.
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Diagnosis
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Narcomedusae with manubrial pouches interradial, undivided or divided into two to four parts, bearing gonads; exumbrellar, perradial, primary tentacles between marginal lobes; without a peripheral canal system; with two or four primary tentacles leaving umbrella in apical half, well above level of stomach pouches; tentacle roots acutely recurved orally; no nematocyst-laden, deep peronial grooves; with peronia, equal or twice as many in number as the primary tentacles; without secondary tentacles on umbrella margin but with rudimentary bulbs; with or without nematocyst patches covering exumbrella.
Lindsay, D. J.; Grossmann, M. M.; Bentlage, B.; Collins, A. G.; Minemizu, R.; Hopcroft, R. R.; Miyake, H.; Hidaka-Umetsu, M.; Nishikawa, J. (2017). The perils of online biogeographic databases: a case study with the ‘monospecific' genus Aegina (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Narcomedusae). Marine Biology Research. 13(5): 494-512.
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