Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Siphonophorae > Suborder Physonectae > Family Agalmatidae > Genus Marrus

Marrus orthocanna (Kramp, 1942)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Marrus*	Totton, 1954	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Stephanomia orthocanna*	Kramp, 1942	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヒノオビクラゲ

Literature

basis of record	Kirkpatrick, P.A.; Pugh, P.R. (1984). Siphonophores and velellids: keys and notes for the identification of the species. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 29. E.J. Brill/W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07470-8. vi, 154 pp.
additional source	Pugh, P. R. (1974). The vertical distribution of the siphonophores collected during the SOND cruise, 1965. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U. K. 54 (1): 25-90.
additional source	Totton, A. K., and Fraser, J. H. 1955g. Siphonophora. Sub-order Physonectae. Family Agalmidae. Cons. Int. Explor. Mer Zooplankton Sheet 61.
additional source	Totton, A. K. 1965. A Synopsis of the Siphonophora. London, British Museum (Natural History). Pp. 230.
additional source	Totton, A. K. (1954). Siphonophora of the Indian Ocean together with systematic and biological notes on related specimens from other oceans. Discovery Rep. 27: 1-162.
additional source	Stepanjants, S. D. 1967. Siphonophores of the seas of the USSR and the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. Opred. Faune SSSR 96. ‘Nauka', Leningrad. (In Russian).
additional source	Dunn, C. W.; Pugh, P. R.; Haddock, S. H. D. (2005). Marrus claudanielis, a new species of deep-sea physonect siphonophore (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Bulletin of Marine Science. 76 (3): 699-714.
additional source	Pugh, P. R. 1999. A review of the genus Bargmannia Totton, 1954 (Siphonophorae, Physonecta, Pyrostephidae). - Bulletin of the Natural History Museum Zoology Series 65: 51-72.
additional source	Zelickman, E.A., 1972. Distribution and ecology of the pelagic hydromedusae, siphonophores and ctenophores of the Barents Sea, based on perennial plankton collections. Mar. Biol., Berl. 17 3: 256-264.
redescription	Andersen, O.G.N., 1981. Redescription of Marrus orthocanna (Kramp, 1942) (Cnidaria, Siphonophora). Steenstrupia 7: 293-307
ecology source	Andersen, O.G.N., 1981. Redescription of Marrus orthocanna (Kramp, 1942) (Cnidaria, Siphonophora). Steenstrupia 7: 293-307

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Marrus orthocanna (Kramp, 1942). 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:135494