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Siphonophora

Myriapoda - Siphonophorida - Siphonophoridae

Taxonomy
Siphonophora was named by Brandt (1837). It is extant. It is the type genus of Siphonophoridae.

It was assigned to Siphonophoridae by Santiago-Blay and Poinar (1992), Riquelme and Hernández-Patricio (2018), Jiang et al. (2019) and Su et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Siphonophora Brandt
1992Siphonophora Santiago-Blay and Poinar p. 366
2018Siphonophora Riquelme and Hernández-Patricio p. 638
2019Siphonophora Jiang et al. p. 35
2021Siphonophora Su et al. p. 280

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
classMyriapoda()
RankNameAuthor
DignathaTiegs 1947
subclassDiplopodaGervais 1844
subclassChilognatha()
infraclassHelminthomorpha(Pocock 1887)
ColobognathaBrandt 1834
orderSiphonophoridaNewport 1844
familySiphonophoridaeNewport 1844
genusSiphonophoraBrandt 1837

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Siphonophora Brandt 1837
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Siphonophora hoffmani Santiago-Blay and Poinar 1992
Siphonophora hui Jiang et al. 2019
Siphonophora velezi Santiago-Blay and Poinar 1992
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available