Cuninidae is a
family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
of
hydrozoans
Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; ) are 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 species can be large, and in some cases the specialize ...
in the order
Narcomedusae
Narcomedusae is an order of hydrozoans in the subclass Trachylinae. Members of this order do not normally have a polyp stage. The medusa has a dome-shaped bell with thin sides. The tentacles are attached above the lobed margin of the bell with ...
. They have dome-shaped bells and tentacles set above the undulating margin of the bell. Their gastric pouches contain the gonads situated in line with the tentacles, the number of pouches being the same as the number of tentacles. The pouches do not extend below the points of origin of the primary tentacles. Members of some genera have a peripheral canal system and others do not. No radial canals or secondary tentacles are present.
Order Narcomedusae - Haeckel, 1879
The Hydrozoa Directory. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
Systematics
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following taxa:[
* Genus '' Cunina'' Eschscholtz, 1829
**'' Cunina becki'' Bouillon, 1985
**'' Cunina discoides'' Fewkes, 1881
**'' Cunina duplicata'' Maas, 1893
**'' Cunina fowleri'' (Browne, 1906)
**'' Cunina frugifera'' Kramp, 1948
**'' Cunina globosa'' Eschscholtz, 1829
**'' Cunina octonaria'' McCrady, 1857
**'' Cunina peregrina'' Bigelow, 1909
**'' Cunina proboscidea'' E. & L. Metschnikoff, 1871
**'' Cunina simplex'' Gili, Bouillon, Pagès, Palanques, Puig & Heussner, 1998
**'' Cunina tenella'' (Bigelow, 1909)
*Genus '' Sigiweddellia'' Bouillon, Pagès & Gili, 2001
**'' Sigiweddellia benthopelagica'' Bouillon, Pagès & Gili, 2001
*Genus '' Solmissus''
**'' Solmissus albescens'' (Gegenbaur, 1856)
**'' Solmissus incisa'' (Fewkes, 1886)
**'' Solmissus marshalli'' Agassiz & Mayer, 1902
]
References
Narcomedusae
Cnidarian families
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