Plumulariidae Explained

Plumulariidae is a family of hydrozoans.

Genus

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following genera belong to this family:^[1]

• Callicarpa Fewkes, 1881
• Cladacanthella Calder, 1997
• Dentitheca Stechow, 1919
• Hippurella Allman, 1877
• Nemertesia Lamouroux, 1812
• Plumularia Lamarck, 1816
• Pseudoplumaria Ramil & Vervoort, 1992
• Schizoplumularia Ansín Agís, Ramil & Calder, 2016
• Sibogella Billard, 1911

Plumularidae of America (1900)

Charles Cleveland Nutting, an American zoologist, wrote the first survey of what he then called 'Plumularidæ' of America in 1900.^[2] Before him, Louis Agassiz had mentioned only three species in 1862. His son Alexander Agassiz 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:

Sources

• Book: Nutting, Charles Cleveland .

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  . American hydroids. 1900. Washington. Government Printing Office. 1, The Plumularidae. Special Bulletin of the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution. 768968015 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Plumulariidae McCrady, 1859. marinespecies.org. en. 2018-03-16.
2. , see also: review of Nutting 1900 in The Zoologist, 4th series vol 5, issue 719 (May, 1901), p. 191