Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Anthoathecata > Suborder Filifera > Superfamily Pandeoidea > Family Pandeidae

Amphinema Haeckel, 1879

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Amphinema biscayana (Browne, 1907)
Amphinema dinema (Péron & Lesueur, 1810)
Amphinema krampi Russell, 1956
Amphinema rubrum (Kramp, 1957)
Amphinema rugosum (Mayer, 1900)
Amphinema turrida (Mayer, 1900)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ツリアイクラゲ属

Literature

original description	Haeckel, E. (1879). Das System der Medusen. Erster Teil einer Monographie der Medusen. Denkschriften der Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena. 1: XX+1-360, 320 plates.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120
additional source	Leloup, E. (1952). Coelentérés [Coelenterata]. Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique: Brussels, Belgium. 283 pp.
redescription	Schuchert, P. (2007). The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Filifera part 2. Revue suisse de Zoologie. 114: 195-396.
subsequent type designation	Rees, W.J. & F.S. Russell, 1937. On rearing the hydroids of certain medusae, with an account of the methods used. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., n. ser. 22 : 61-82.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Amphinema Haeckel, 1879. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117178