Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Leptothecata > Family Zygophylacidae

Zygophylax Quelch, 1885

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lictorella*	Allman, 1888	synonym

Children

Zygophylax bathyphila Leloup, 1940
Zygophylax biarmata Billard, 1905
Zygophylax brownei Billard, 1924
Zygophylax echinata Calder & Vervoort, 1998
Zygophylax leloupi Ramil & Vervoort, 1992
Zygophylax levinseni (Saemundsson, 1911)
Zygophylax pinnata (G.O. Sars, 1874)
Zygophylax sibogae Billard, 1918

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: タバキセルガヤ属

Literature

original description	Quelch J.J. (1885). Note on deep-sea and shallow-water Hydrozoa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 5). 16: 156.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120
additional source	Peña Cantero Á. L. (2020b). On six new species of Zygophylax Quelch, 1885 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Zygophylacidae) from the New Calendonian region. Zootaxa. 4822(3): 389-404.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Gu, Z.; Ruthensteiner, B.; Moura, C. J.; Liu, L.; Zhang, R.; Song, X. (2022). Systematic affinities of Zygophylacidae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Macrocolonia) with descriptions of 15 deep-sea species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
status source	Marques, A. C., Pena Cantero, A. L., & Migotto, A. E. (2006). Overview of the phylogeny of the families Lafoeidae and Hebellidae (Hydrozoa: Leptothecata): their composition and classification. Invertebrate Systematics. 20: 43-58.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Zygophylax Quelch, 1885. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117138