Plumulariidae is a
family
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of
hydrozoans.
Genus
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following
genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
belong to this family:
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Callicarpa
''Callicarpa'' (beautyberry) is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Lamiaceae.Heywood, V.H., Brummitt, R.K., Culham, A. & Seberg, O. 2007: Flowering Plant Families of the World. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. They are native to east and ...
''
Fewkes, 1881
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Cladacanthella''
Calder, 1997
*''
Dentitheca''
Stechow, 1919
*''
Hippurella''
Allman, 1877
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Nemertesia
''Nemertesia'' is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the family Plumulariidae.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
*''Nemertesia alternata''
*''Nemertesia americana''
*''Nemertesia anonyma''
*''Nemertesia antennina''
*''Nemer ...
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Lamouroux, 1812
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Plumularia
''Plumularia'' is a genus of hydrozoans in the family Plumulariidae.
Species
The following species are classified in this genus:
*'' Plumularia acutifrons'' Fraser, 1938
*'' Plumularia adjecta'' Fraser, 1948
*'' Plumularia amphibola'' (Watson, ...
''
Lamarck, 1816
*''
Pseudoplumaria''
Ramil & Vervoort, 1992
*''
Schizoplumularia''
Ansín Agís, Ramil & Calder, 2016
*''
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 zoologist, born in Jacksonville, Illinois. He graduated from Blackburn University (1880) and received the M. A. degree from the same institutio ...
, 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'', 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 rec ...
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 to ...
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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