site history


21 January 2004: first time online

- Individual pages down to the suborder level published, all family diagnoses are provided.


15th upload September 2007

- added portrait of Norman; updated classification of Bougainvilliidae, Rathkeidae, Clathrozoellidae, Monobrachidae; added new references in download area



16th upload April 2008

- corrected taxon name Proboscoida, genus Earleria replaced Foersteria; other small changes



17th upload July 2008

- new museum logo, added portrait pages of J. Watson, A. G. Mayer, and C. Vogt; added new photo of J. Alder; new PDFs


18th upload May 2009

- new PDFs


19th upload June 2009

- the classification reverted to the Anthoathecata/Leptothecata system as given in Daly et al. (2007), this in order to harmonise it with the WORMS Hydrozoa database



20th upload January 2010

- added several new portraits, like Bigelow, Broch, Uchida, Vanhoeffen, and more; added link to World Hydrozoa Database


21st upload October 2010

- replaced Russellidae by Heterotentaculidae, Laingiidae by Magapiidae, several other minor changes

22nd upload April 2011

- revised Corynidae and Polyorchidae






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