Motile sexual stages and evolution of Leptomedusae (Cnidaria)
作者:
Ferdinando Boero,
Michele Sarà,
期刊:
Bolletino di zoologia
(Taylor Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 54,
issue 2
页码: 131-139
ISSN:0373-4137
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1080/11250008709355572
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Evolution;Leptomedusae;Cnidaria
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The production of free medusoids is considered to be a transition from the production of medusae to the abolition of this stage of the life cycle, within a generalized process of paedomorphosis occurring within hydromedusae, in which the hydroid stage is the larva and the medusa stage the adult. The discovery of a species of Haleciidae producing free medusoids allows the reconstruction of the phylogeny of this family according to the following sequence of genera:Campalecium(producing medusae);Hydrantbeaproducing free medusoids);Hydrodendron(with sporosacs and nematophores);Scoresbia(with sporosacs and nematothecae);Ophiodissa(with sporosacs and nematothecae, branched);Phylactotbeca(with sporosacs, differentiated nematothecae and hydrothecae, branched). The affinities of the medusa stages betweenCampaleciumandEucbeilotaindicate that the Haleciidae originated by the evolution of hydroids of the family Campanulinidae s.l. The Haleciidae evolved further, giving rise to the Plumulariidae. The phylogeny of the Haleciidae is compared with that of the Campanulariidae, in which the reduction of the motile sexual stages is probably followed by the formation of the peculiar medusa ofObelia, considered here as deriving from fixed gonophores. Probably different processes can occur in the evolution of hydromedusae, according to both the gradualistic and the punctuated equilibria hypotheses.
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