Rhodaliidae is a family of siphonophores. In Japanese they are called ().
Rhodaliids have a characteristic gas-secreting structure called aurophore. Below the enlarged (float), the siphosome and nectosome are contracted into a complex. Rhodaliids have a benthic lifestyle and use their tentacles to attach themselves to the seafloor.
Genera and species
Rhodaliidae contains the following subtaxa:
- Angelopsis <small>Fewkes, 1886</small>
- Angelopsis euryale <small>Pugh, 1983</small>
- Angelopsis globosa <small>Fewkes, 1886</small>
- Arancialia <small>Hissmann, 2005</small>
- Arancialia captonia <small>Hissmann, 2005</small>
- Archangelopsis <small>Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908</small>
- Archangelopsis jagoa <small>Hissmann, Schauer & Pugh, 1995</small>
- Archangelopsis typica <small>Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908</small>
- Dendrogramma <small>Just, Kristensen & Olesen, 2014</small>
- Dendrogramma enigmatica <small>Just, Kristensen & Olesen, 2014</small>
- Dromalia <small>Bigelow, 1911</small>
- Dromalia alexandri <small>Bigelow, 1911</small>
- Rhodalia <small>Haeckel, 1888</small>
- Rhodalia miranda <small>Haeckel, 1888</small>
- Steleophysema <small>Moser, 1924</small>
- Steleophysema aurophora <small>Moser, 1924</small>
- Stephalia <small>Haeckel, 1888</small>
- Stephalia bathyphysa <small>(Haeckel, 1888)</small>
- Stephalia corona <small>Haeckel, 1888</small>
- Stephalia dilata <small>(Bigelow, 1911)</small>
- Thermopalia <small>Pugh, 1983</small>
- Thermopalia taraxaca <small>Pugh, 1983</small>
- Tridensa <small>Hissmann, 2005</small>
- Tridensa rotunda <small>Hissmann, 2005</small>
- Tridensa sulawensis <small>Hissmann, 2005</small>
References
Further reading
- Pugh, P. R. (1983). Benthic Siphonophores: A Review of the Family Rhodaliidae (Siphonophora, Physonectae). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 301(1105): 165-300. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1983.0025