Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa

Hydroidolina Collins, 2000

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Subclass group names

*Hydroida*	Johnston, 1937	synonym

Children

Anthoathecata Cornelius, 1992
Leptothecata Cornelius, 1992
Siphonophorae Eschscholtz, 1829

Literature

original description	Collins, A.G., 2000. Towards understanding in the phylogenetic history of Hydrozoa: hypothesis testing with 18S gene sequence data. In: C.E. Mills, F. Boero, A. Migotto & J.M. Gili, eds., Trends in Hydrozoan Biology - IV. Sci. Mar. 64 Supl. 1: 5-22.
basis of record	Bouillon, J.; Boero, F. (2000). Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. Thalassia Salent. 24: 47-296
additional source	Marques, A.C., Collins A.G., 2004. Cladistic analysis of medusozoa and cnidarian evolution. Inv. Biol. 123 1: 23-42.
additional source	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.
additional source	Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C.; Pagès, F.; Gili, J.-M.; Boero, F. (2006). An introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 194. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-580-1. 591 + 1 cd-rom pp.
additional source	Collins, A. G., Bentlage, B., Alberto Lindner, A., Lindsay, D., Haddock, S.H. D., Jarms, G., Norenburg, J. L., Jankowski, T., & Paulyn Cartwright, P. (2008) Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 88(8): 1673-1685.
additional source	Collins, A.G., Schuchert P., Marques A.C., Jankowski T., Medina m., Schierwater B., 2006. Medusozoan phylogeny and character evolution clarified by new large and small subynit rDNA and an assessment of teh utility of phylogenetic mixture models. Syst. Biol. 55 1: 97-115.