Teissieridae Bouillon 1978

Teissieridae is a family of cnidarians belonging to the order Anthoathecata.

Genera:

Pseudosolanderia Bouillon & Gravier-Bonnet, 1988 Teissiera Bouillon, 1974

Colony forming a basal plate or upright, branching hydrorhiza consisting of basal or central periderm provided with spines that penetrate overlying coenosarc, with or without peridermal ridges, overlaid by gastrodermal tubes enclosed in common epidermis and covered externally by thin, filmy periderm; hydranths polymorphic; broad, sausage-shaped, with numerous scattered capitate tentacles, with or without a clear whorl of oral tentacles; with or without simple dactylozooids with scattered capitate tentacles; medusae bud carried singly among tentacles on proximal part of gastrozooids; cnidome with macrobasic heteronemes. Medusa with or without apical projection; four radial canals; four perradial exumbrellar nematocyst patches on base of radial canals, containing stenoteles, each pouch with an apical ocellus; two opposite perradial tentacles with large bulbs without ocelli, abaxial cnidophores on tentacles, non tentaculate perradial bulbs small or absent;gonads on interradial of simple manubrium; one ocellus in the most apical part of the exumbrellar pouches.