Pandeidae is a family of hydroids in the class Hydrozoa. Like other jellyfish there is usually a mature medusa form which is pelagic and reproduces sexually and a hydroid or polyp form which is often benthic and reproduces asexually by budding.Hydromedusae C. E. Mills. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
Characteristics Members of this family have bell-shaped medusae with a four-part manubrium or sub-umbrella, a mouth with four plain or pleated lips and four, often broad, radial canals. The gonads are smooth or folded and positioned on the walls of the manubrium and sometimes extend onto the radial canals. There are fine, hollow tentacles along the margin of the bell, mostly growing from small carrot-shaped bulbs. The hydroids have threadlike tentacles.Family Pandeidae Marine Species Identification Portal. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
Genera The World Register of Marine Species recognises the following genera: Amphinema Haeckel, 1879 Annatiara Russell, 1940 Barnettia Schuchert, 1996 Catablema Haeckel, 1879 Cirrhitiara Hartlaub, 1914 Eutiara Bigelow, 1918 Geomackiea Mills, 1985 Halitholus Hartlaub, 1913 Hydrichthys Fewkes, 1887 Larsonia Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 1991 Leuckartiara Hartlaub, 1914 Merga Hartlaub, 1914 Neoturris Hartlaub, 1914 Nudiclava Lloyd, 1907 Octotiara Kramp, 1953 Pandea Lesson, 1843 Pandeopsis Kramp, 1959 Pelagiana Borstad & Brinckmann-Voss, 1979 Perigonella Stechow, 1921 Stomotoca L. Agassiz, 1862 Timoides Bigelow, 1904 Zanclonia Hartlaub, 1914
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