Liriope Lesson 1843
Authors/Creators
- 1. Muséum d'histoire naturelle, C. P. 6434, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Switzerland
- 2. 880 NE 33 rd Street, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Description
Genus Liriope Lesson, 1843
Liriope Lesson, 1843: 331;
type species Liriope cerasiformis Lesson, 1843 (Haeckel, 1979: 288).
Xanthea Lesson, 1843: 333; type species Xanthea agaricina Lesson, 1843 by monotypy.
Leuckartia L. Agassiz, 1862: 364; type species Leuckartia proboscidalis L. Agassiz, 1862 by monotypy.
Glossocodon Haeckel, 1864b: 460; type species Liriope eurybia Haeckel, 1864 by monotypy.
Glossocodon (Glossoconus) Haeckel, 1864b: 461; no type species designated.
Liriantha Haeckel, 1879: 286, no type species designated.
Liriantha (Lirianthella) Haeckel, 1879: 286; no type species designated.
Liriantha (Lirianthissa) Haeckel, 1879: 287; no type species designated.
Liriope (Liriopella) Haeckel, 1879: 289; no type species designated.
Liriope (Liriopissa) Haeckel, 1879: 290; no type species designated.
? Pentaradiata Zamponi & Gezano, 1989: 34; type species Pentarradiata estuariensis Zamponi & Genzano, 1989 by monotypy.
? Heptarradiata Zamponi & Gezano, 1989: 35; type species Heptarradiata rioplatensis Zamponi & Genzano, 1989 by monotypy.
? Octorradiata Zamponi & Gezano, 1989: 36; type species Octorradiata bonaerensis Zamponi & Genzano, 1989 by monotypy.
Diagnosis: Limnomedusae with long gastric peduncle; stomach small, with 4 lips; 4 radial canals, with additional centripetal canals; 4 gonads on radial canals, flattened and leaf-shaped; two kinds of marginal tentacles, solid and hollow; ecto-endodermal statocysts enclosed in mesoglea. No polyp stage, direct developement.
Remarks: Rarely, aberrant animals with more than four radial canals and gonads can occur, but the number of oral lips remains rather constantly four (Bouillon et al., 2006).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Limnomedusae
- Family
- Geryoniidae
- Genus
- Liriope
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Liriope Lesson, 1843 sec. Schuchert & Collins, 2021
References
- Lesson R. P. 1843. Histoire naturelle des zoophytes. Acalephes. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 596 pp. DOI: 10.5962 / bhl. title. 4799
- Agassiz A. 1862. In: Agassiz L. 1862.
- Haeckel E. 1864 b. Die Famile der Russelquallen (Medusae, Geryonidae). Jenaische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Naturwissenschaften 1: 435 - 461, pls 11 - 12.
- Haeckel E. 1864 a. Beschreibung neuer Craspedoter Medusen aus dem Golfe von Nizza. Jenaische Zeitschrift fur Medizin und Naturwissenschaft 1: 326 - 342. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 8620986
- Haeckel E. 1879. Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. Denkschriften der Medicinisch- Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 1: I-XX, 1 - 360, 20 pls.
- Zamponi M. O., Genzano G. N. 1989. Nuevas adiciones a la medusofauna de la region Subantarctica. 2. Trachymedusae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Neotropica 34 (91): 33 - 39.
- Bouillon J., Gravili C., Pages F., Gili J. M., Boero F. 2006. An introduction to Hydrozoa. Memoires du Mus e um National d'Histoire Naturelle 194: 1 - 591.