''Staurocladia'' is a genus of
anthomedusan hydrozoa
Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; from Ancient Greek ('; "water") and ('; "animals")) is a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class (biology), class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline wat ...
ns. Its former
family
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Eleutheriidae is now included in the
Cladonematidae
Cladonematidae is a small family of anthomedusan hydrozoans. They have stolonal hydroid colonies, and their medusae are benthic and can crawl across the sediment; in many species they have lost the ability to swim however.Schuchert 009/ref>
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Species
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include:
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Staurocladia acuminata''
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Staurocladia alternata''
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Staurocladia bilateralis''
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Staurocladia charcoti''
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Staurocladia haswelli''
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Staurocladia oahuensis''
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Staurocladia portmanni''
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Staurocladia schizogena''
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Staurocladia ulvae''
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Staurocladia vallentini''
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Staurocladia wellingtoni''
References
Cladonematidae
Hydrozoan genera
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