Plumulariidae is a
family
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of
hydrozoan
Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; from Ancient Greek ('; "water") and ('; "animals")) is a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water. The colonies of the colonial sp ...
s.
Genus
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following
genera
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belong to this family:
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Callicarpa
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Fewkes, 1881
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Cladacanthella''
Calder, 1997
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Dentitheca''
Stechow, 1919
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Hippurella''
Allman, 1877
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Nemertesia''
Lamouroux, 1812
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Plumularia''
Lamarck, 1816
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Pseudoplumaria''
Ramil & Vervoort, 1992
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Schizoplumularia''
Ansín Agís, Ramil & Calder, 2016
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Sibogella''
Billard, 1911
Plumularidae of America (1900)
Charles Cleveland Nutting
Charles Cleveland Nutting (May 25, 1858 – January 23, 1927 in Iowa City, Iowa) was an American zoology, zoologist, born in Jacksonville, Illinois, Jacksonville, Illinois. He graduated from Blackburn University (1880) and received the Maste ...
, an American zoologist, wrote the first survey of what he then called 'Plumularidæ' of America in 1900.
[, see also: review of Nutting 1900 in '']The Zoologist
''The Zoologist'' was a monthly natural history magazine established in 1843 by Edward Newman and published in London. Newman acted as editor-in-chief until his death in 1876, when he was succeeded, first by James Edmund Harting (1876–1896 ...
'', 4th series vol 5, issue 719 (May, 1901), p. 191 Before him,
Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
Spending his early life in Switzerland, he recei ...
had mentioned only three species in 1862. His son
Alexander Agassiz
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (December 17, 1835March 27, 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.
Biography
Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and immigrated t ...
recognized six species. In 1877
George Allman described twenty-six species. Nutting
gives descriptions and figures of about one hundred and twenty-one species! He writes:
References
Sources
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Plumularioidea
Cnidarian families
Taxa named by Louis Agassiz
Taxa described in 1862
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