Kephyes Pugh, 2006

Grossmann, Mary Matilda & Lindsay, Dhugal John, 2017, A new species of clausophyid calycophoran siphonophore (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), Kephyes hiulcus sp. nov., widely distributed throughout the world's oceans, Zootaxa 4250 (1), pp. 43-54 : 44

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4250.1.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6028143
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scientific name	Kephyes Pugh, 2006
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Genus Kephyes Pugh, 2006 View in CoL

Type species. Kephyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860) .

Diagnosis. Clausophyidae with two nectophores, lacking ridges and cusps, and with descending surface diverticula in both nectophores; cormidia with bracts, released as free-living eudoxids, each comprising a bract with two bracteal canals and a phyllocyst, a gastrozooid and tentacle, and a gonophore without distinctive ridges.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Hydrozoa
Order	Siphonophorae
Family	Clausophyidae

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