Medusozoa

Chrysaora fuscescens

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Medusozoa
Classes: Cubozoa – Hydrozoa – ?Polypodiozoa – Scyphozoa – Staurozoa
Genera incertae sedis: †Auroralumina – †Burgessomedusa

Name

Medusozoa Petersen, 1979: 107

References

Primary references

• Petersen, K.W. 1979. Development of coloniality in Hydrozoa. In: Larwood, G. & B. Rosen, B. (eds.) Biology and systematics of colonial organisms. Symposium Systematics Association Special Volume 11: 105–139. Internet Archive . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Dunn, F.S., Kenchington, C.G., Parry, L.A., Clark, J.W., Kendall, R.S. & Wilby, P.R. 2022. A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6(8): 1095–1104. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01807-x . Reference page. 
• Marques, A.C. & Collins, A.G. 2004. Cladistic analysis of Medusozoa and cnidarian evolution. Invertebrate Biology 123(1): 23–42. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2004.tb00139.x . Reference page. 
• Mendoza-Becerril, M.A., Estrada-González, M.C., Mazariegos-Villarreal, A., Restrepo-Avendaño, L., Villar-Beltrán, R.D., Agüero, J. & Cunha, A.F. 2020. Taxonomy and diversity of Hydrozoa (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) of La Paz Bay, Gulf of California. Zootaxa 4808(1): 1–37. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.1 Reference page. 
• Oliveira, O.M.P., Miranda, T.P., Araujo, E.M., Ayón, P., Cedeño-Posso, C., Cepeda-Mercado, A.A., Córdova, P., Cunha, A.F., Genzano, G.N., Haddad, M.A., Mianzan, H., Migotto, A.E., Miranda, L.S., Morandini, A.C., Nagata, R.M., Nascimento, K.B., Nogueira Júnior, M., Palma, S., Quiñones, J., Rodriguez, C.S., Scarabino, F., Schiariti, A., Stampar, S.N., Tronolone, V.B. & Marques, A.C. 2016. Census of Cnidaria (Medusozoa) and Ctenophora from South American marine waters. Zootaxa 4194(1): 1–256. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4194.1.1. Reference page. 

Links

• ITIS Report

Vernacular names

• português: Medusozoários
• русский: Медузопроизводящие
• ไทย: แมงกะพรุน