| Plumulariidae | |
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| Plumularia setacea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Leptothecata |
| Superfamily: | Plumularioidea |
| Family: | Plumulariidae Agassiz, 1862 [1] |
| Genera | |
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Plumulariidae is a family of hydrozoans. [1]
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following genera belong to this family: [2]
Charles Cleveland Nutting, an American zoologist, wrote the first survey of what he then called 'Plumularidæ' of America in 1900. [3] 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:
It is now evident that the West Indian region is the richest in plumularian life of any area of equal size in the world. Not even the Australian region, hitherto regarded as by far the most prolific in these exceedingly graceful organisms, can equal our own southern waters in profusion of genera and species.
Carcharias is a genus of sand tiger sharks belonging to the family Odontaspididae. Once bearing many prehistoric species, all have gone extinct with the exception of the critically endangered sand tiger shark.
Plumularioidea is a superfamily of hydrozoans in the order Leptothecata.
Scleraxonia is a suborder of corals, a member of the phylum Cnidaria.
Limnomedusae is an order of hydrozoans.
Eudendrium is a large genus of hydroids (Hydrozoa), one of two in the family Eudendriidae. These animals are marine cnidarias in the family Eudendriidae.
Halopterididae is a family of hydrozoans.
Corhiza is a genus of hydrozoans in the family Halopterididae.
Plumularia is a genus of hydrozoans in the family Plumulariidae.
Aglaophenia is a genus of hydrozoans in the family Aglaopheniidae.
Macrorhynchia is a genus of hydroids in the family Aglaopheniidae.
Corallimorphidae is a family of corallimorphs. It includes three genera:
Hemicidaridae is a family of extinct sea urchins characterized by large, massive, club-shaped spines.
Sarsia is a genus of hydrozoan in the family Corynidae.
Sertularia is a genus of hydroids in the family Sertulariidae.
Eirenidae is a family of hydrozoans.
Eirene is a genus of hydrozoans in the family Eirenidae.
Zygophylax is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the family Zygophylacidae.
Nemertesia is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the family Plumulariidae.
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