{{Short description|Genus of hydrozoans}} {{Speciesbox | image = Solmundella bitentaculata.jpg | image_caption = ''Solmundella bitentaculata'' | parent_authority = Haeckel, 1879 | taxon = Solmundella bitentaculata | authority = (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) | synonyms= (Genus) * ''Aeginella'' <small>Haeckel, 1879</small> (Species) * ''Aeginella dissonema'' <small>Haeckel, 1879</small> * ''Aeginopsis mediterranea'' <small>Müller, 1851</small> * ''Carybdea bitentaculata'' <small>Quoy & Gaimard, 1833</small> * ''Solmundella muelleri'' <small>Haeckel, 1879</small> }}
'''''Solmundella''''' is a genus of hydrozoan in the family Solmundaeginidae. It is monotypic, with the single species '''''Solmundella bitentaculata'''''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116997|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Solmundella Haeckel, 1879|website=marinespecies.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-13}}</ref>
==Distribution== This species is found in: * Ross Sea, Antarctica.<ref name="Larson 1990"/> * European waters <ref name="marinespecies.org">{{Cite web | url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117267 | title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)}}</ref> * Gulf of Mexico <ref name="marinespecies.org"/> * Kenya <ref name="marinespecies.org"/> * New Zealand <ref name="marinespecies.org"/> * North West Atlantic <ref name="marinespecies.org"/> * Mediterranean Sea
== Ecology == ''Solmundella bitentaculata'' is an epipelagic and mesopelagic species.<ref name="WoRMS 2010">WoRMS (2010). Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). In: Schuchert, P. World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117267 on 2011-01-31</ref> It feeds on the gastropod ''Limacina antarctica''.<!--referred as Limacina helicina in that 1990 work--><ref name="Larson 1990">Larson R. J. & Harbison G. R. (1990). "Medusae from Mcmurdo Sound, Ross Sea including the descriptions of two new species, ''Leuckartiara brownei'' and ''Benthocodon hyalinus''". ''Polar Biology'' '''11'''(1): 19-25. {{doi|10.1007/BF00236517}}.</ref>
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