Solmarisidae 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 ...

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 ...

. The name is sometimes spelled "Solmaridae".

Characteristics

Members of this family have dome-shaped bells and numerous tentacles set above the undulating margin of the bell. They do not have gastric pouches as do other members of the order. The gonads are situated inside the wall of the stomach.Order Narcomedusae - Haeckel, 1879
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Genera and species

The World Register of Marine Species lists the following

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and

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

: *'' Pegantha'' Haeckel, 1879 **'' Pegantha clara'' Bigelow, 1909 **'' Pegantha laevis'' H. B. Bigelow, 1909 **'' Pegantha martagon'' Haeckel, 1879 **'' Pegantha rubiginosa'' (Kölliker, 1853) **'' Pegantha triloba'' Haeckel, 1879 *'' Solmaris'' **'' Solmaris corona'' (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1861) **'' Solmaris flavescens'' (Kölliker, 1853) **'' Solmaris lenticula'' Haeckel, 1879 **'' Solmaris leucostyla'' (Will, 1844) **'' Solmaris quadrata'' Bouillon, Boero & Seghers, 1991 **'' Solmaris rhodoloma'' (Brandt, 1838) **'' Solmaris solmaris'' (Gegenbaur, 1856)

References

Narcomedusae Cnidarian families Taxa named by Ernst Haeckel {{Hydrozoa-stub