ReviewPloS one2014
Global diversity and review of Siphonophorae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa).
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- Extreme conservation of cnidarian stinging cell identity despite 600 million years of evolution.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Generalizing the central dogma as a cross-hierarchical principle of biology.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Giants among Cnidaria: Large Nuclear Genomes and Rearranged Mitochondrial Genomes in Siphonophores.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
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- Global distribution patterns of siphonophores across horizontal and vertical oceanic gradients.Open research Europe · 2024Article
- Temporal patterns of gelatinous zooplankton distribution and environmental drivers in the south-western Mediterranean Sea.Biodiversity data journal · 2023Article
- Amazon River plume habitats shape planktonic cnidarian assemblages in the Western Atlantic.PloS one · 2023Article
- Distributed propulsion enables fast and efficient swimming modes in physonect siphonophores.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The evolution of siphonophore tentilla for specialized prey capture in the open ocean.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- The Evolutionary History of Siphonophore Tentilla: Novelties, Convergence, and Integration.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Health-risk assessment of Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis) envenomations on urban beaches in São Luís city, in the state of Maranhão, Brazil.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2020Article
- Morphology and development of the Portuguese man of war, Physalia physalis.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Biological composition and microbial dynamics of sinking particulate organic matter at abyssal depths in the oligotrophic open ocean.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Swimbladder morphology masks Southern Ocean mesopelagic fish biomass.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Improved phylogenetic resolution within Siphonophora (Cnidaria) with implications for trait evolution.Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · 2018Article
- Occurrence of the siphonophoreJournal of plankton research · 2017Article
- Multi-jet propulsion organized by clonal development in a colonial siphonophore.Nature communications · 2015Article
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Abstract
In this review the history of discovery of siphonophores, from the first formal description by Carl Linnaeus in 1785 to the present, is summarized, and species richness together with a summary of world-wide distribution of this pelagic group within the clade Hydrozoa discussed. Siphonophores exhibit three basic body plans which are briefly explained and figured, whilst other atypical body plans are also noted. Currently, 175 valid siphonophore species are recognized in the latest WoRMS world list, including 16 families and 65 genera. Much new information since the last review in 1987 is revealed from the first molecular analysis of the group, enabling identification of some new morphological characters diagnostic for physonect siphonophores. Ten types of nematocysts (stinging cells) are identified in siphonophores, more than in any other cnidarian; these are incorporated into batteries in the side branches of the tentacles in most species (here termed tentilla), and tentilla are reviewed in the last section of this paper. Their discharge mechanisms are explained and also how the tentilla of several physonect siphonophores are modified into lures. Of particular interest is the recent discovery of a previously unknown red fluorescent lure in the tentilla of the deep sea physonect Erenna, the first described example of emission of red light by an invertebrate to attract prey.
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