Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Siphonophorae > Suborder Calycophorae > Family Clausophyidae > Genus Kephyes

Kephyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Diphyes Cuvier, 1817

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

KephyesPugh, 2006accepted genus name

Species group names

Clausophyes massiliana Patriti, 1969 synonym
Clausophyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860) synonym

Literature

basis of record

Pugh, P. R. 2006. Reclassification of the clausophyid siphonophore Clausophyes ovata into the genus Kephyes gen. nov. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U.K. 86 (5): 997-1004.

ecology source

Mapstone, G. M. (2014). Global Diversity and Review of Siphonophorae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). PLoS ONE. 9(2): e87737.

ecology source

Keferstein, W. and Ehlers, E. 1861. Zoologische Beiträge gesammelt in Winter 1859-1860 in Neapel und Messina, Leipzig. pp. viii + 112, 15 plates.

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Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Kephyes ovata (Keferstein & Ehlers, 1860). 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:387273

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2013-12-27 by Peter Schuchert

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