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

Physophora Forsskål, 1775

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Physsophora*	Forsskål, 1775	orthographic variant

Children

Physophora gilmeri Pugh, 2005
Physophora hydrostatica Forsskål, 1775

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: バレンクラゲ属

Literature

original description	Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp.
additional source	Huxley, Th.H., 1859. The oceanic Hydrozoa; a description of the Calycophoridae and Physophoridae observed during the voyage of H.M.S. "Rattlesnake", in the years 1846-50.
additional source	Forsskål, P.; Niebuhr, C. (1776). Icones rerum naturalium, quas in itinere orientali depingi curavit Petrus Forskål. Prof. Haun. Post mortem auctoris ad regis mandatum aeri incisas editit Carsten Niebuhr, 15 pp., 43 pls.; Hauniae [Copenhagen]: Ex officina Mölleri, aulae typographi, prostat apud Cl. Philibert,1776.

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Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Physophora Forsskål, 1775. 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:135397