Octophialucium Kramp, 1955

Schuchert, Peter & Collins, Richard, 2021, Hydromedusae observed during night dives in the Gulf Stream, Revue suisse de Zoologie 128 (2), pp. 237-356 : 306

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.35929/RSZ.0049
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5640048
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scientific name	Octophialucium Kramp, 1955
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Genus Octophialucium Kramp, 1955 View in CoL View at ENA

Octophialucium Kramp, 1955b: 256 View in CoL ;

type species Octocanna medium Kramp, 1955 (designation in Kramp, 1961).

Diagnosis: Medusa without gastric peduncle, manubrium with eight lips; usually eight radial canals, variable in some species from 6 to 11; gonads on radial canals, separated from manubrium; tentacle bulbs with adaxial excretory papillae; no permanent atentaculate marginal bulbs, only developing tentacular bulbs; with closed statocysts; no ocelli; no cirri.

Hydroid colony stolonal; hydrotheca pedicellate, with a conical operculum formed by numerous convergent segments that are not clearly demarcated from hydrothecal wall; hydranth with intertentacular web; gonothecae claviform, arising from stolons.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Hydrozoa
Order	Leptothecata
Family	Malagazziidae