Thecocodium Bouillon, 1967

Schuchert, Peter & Collins, Richard, 2021, Hydromedusae observed during night dives in the Gulf Stream, Revue suisse de Zoologie 128 (2), pp. 237-356 : 259

Genus Thecocodium Bouillon, 1967

Thecocodium Bouillon, 1967: 1119 ;

type species Thecocodium brieni Bouillon, 1967 by original designation.

Diagnosis: Medusa with lobed bell margin, with marginal nematocyst ring from which usually arise several centripetal nematocyst bands or exumbrellar rows of refringent spots. Four radial canals and hollow circular canal, short mesenteries. Four marginal tentacles with bases embedded in umbrellar furrows, no ocelli. Manubrium with short, perradial lips ending in nematocyst clusters; gonads interradial on manubrium.

Hydroid with reticulate, tubular hydrorhiza, covered by perisarc. Polyps on stolons, sessile, naked, polymorphic, usually with gastro-gonozooids and dactylozooids. Gastro-gonozooids cylindrical or club-shaped, without tentacles, hypostome with nematocysts. Dactylozooids thin, solid gastrodermis, terminal group of capitate tentacles. Gonophores fixed sporosacs or free medusae developing in a single whorl on gonozooids. Cnidome of polyp includes desmonemes.