Hydroidolina

Hydroidolina
Siphonophorae from Ernst Haeckel's 1904 Kunstformen der Natur
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Subclass: Hydroidolina
Marques & Collins, 2004
Order:
  • Anthoathecata
  • Leptothecata
  • Siphonophorae

See text.

Synonyms
  • Hydroida
  • Hydroidae
  • Hydroidolinae Marques & Collins, 2004
  • Hydroidomedusa
  • Hydroidomedusae
  • Leptolida Haeckel, 1879
  • Leptolina Haeckel, 1879
  • Leptolinae Haeckel, 1879

Hydroidolina[1] is a subclass of Hydrozoa and makes up 90% of the class.[2] Controversy surrounds who the sister groups of Hydroidolina are, but research has shown that three orders remain consistent as direct relatives: Siphonophorae, Anthoathecata, and Leptothecata.[3]

  1. ^ Kayal E, Bentlage B, Cartwright P, Yanagihara AA, Lindsay DJ, Hopcroft RR, Collins AG (November 2015). "Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription". PeerJ. 3: e1403. doi:10.7717/peerj.1403. PMC 4655093. PMID 26618080.
  2. ^ Collins AG, Schuchert P, Marques AC, Jankowski T, Medina M, Schierwater B (February 2006). Collins T (ed.). "Medusozoan phylogeny and character evolution clarified by new large and small subunit rDNA data and an assessment of the utility of phylogenetic mixture models". Systematic Biology. 55 (1): 97–115. doi:10.1080/10635150500433615. PMID 16507527. S2CID 15523821.
  3. ^ Bentlage B, Collins AG (September 2021). "Tackling the phylogenetic conundrum of Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Hydrozoa) by assessing competing tree topologies with targeted high-throughput sequencing". PeerJ. 9: e12104. doi:10.7717/peerj.12104. PMC 8435201. PMID 34589302.