Narcomedusae, Haeckel, 1879

Schuchert, Peter & Collins, Richard, 2021, Hydromedusae observed during night dives in the Gulf Stream, Revue suisse de Zoologie 128 (2), pp. 237-356 : 316

Order Narcomedusae

Remarks: The families of the Narcomedusae have recently been reorganized by Lindsay et al. (2017) using DNA data. Bentlage et al. (2018) added more sequences. The 16S sequences of these studies and the ones from the present study were combined to get a maximum likelihood tree ( Fig. 48 ). Although 16S has low resolving power above the genus level, some well supported nodes indicate that the Cuninidae and Solmarisidae are polyphyletic as already found by Bentlage et al. (2018). As revision of the families is beyond the scope of this study, we here used the family level taxonomy of Bouillon et al. (2006) and Lindsay et al. (2017), except for the genus Otoporpa .

Figures

Fig. 48. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of Narcomedusae obtained with PhyML (GTR+G+I model) and based on about 600 bp positions of the mitochondrial 16S gene. Node-support values are bootstrap values of 100 pseudoreplicates (shown only if> 70%). Sequence labels start with the GenBank numbers (except for identical haplotypes) permitting the retrieval of more information. Some proveniences were obtained from Lindsay et al. (2017) or through personal communications. Red ODEHOV DUH QHZ VHTXHQFHV IURP WKLV VWXG\. &RORXUHG ER[HV LQGLFDWH IDPLO\ DI¿OLDWLRQV DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH FXUUHQWO\ XVHG V\VWHP. (") 'HQRWHV SRVVLEOH PLVLGHQWL¿FDWLRQV.