Suborder Cystonectae Haeckel, 1887

Diagnosis

Siphonophorae with a budding zone on only one side of the base of the aboral float; without bracts and without swimming bells. Tentacles are generally simple, the nematocysts are not concentrated in batteries on the side branches, when these are developed.

Higher classification

Metazoa, Cnidaria, Medusozoa, Hydrozoa, Leptolinae,  Siphonophorae

References

Kirkpatrick, P. A., & Pugh, P. R. 1984. Siphonophores and velellids. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 29: 1-154.

Pages, F., & Gili, J.-M. 1992. Siphonophores (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the Benguela Current (southeastern Atlantic). Scientia Marina  56: 65-112.

Totton, A. K. 1965. A synopsis of Siphonophora - British Museum (natural History), London: 230 pp.

Classification

Family Physaliidae

Cystonectae with a horizontal pneumatophore.

Family Rhizophysidae

Cystonectae with an apical and vertical pneumatophore.