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Haleciidae Hincks 1868
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Family Haleciidae Hincks, 1868
Thecate hydroids with shallow, saucer- or basin-shaped hydrothecae. Hydrotheca radially symmetrical, usually with diaphragm; margin entire, without operculum. Hydranth large and usually not completely retractable into hydrotheca, with conical hypostome and one circlet of filiform tentacles. Nematophores present or absent. Gonophores in form of fixed sporosacs or rarely, freed as medusae.
Notes
Published as part of Watson, Jeanette E., 2008, Hydroids of the BANZARE expeditions, 1929 – 1931: the family Haleciidae (Hydrozoa, Leptothecata) from the Australian Antarctic Territory, pp. 165-178 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65 on page 166, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2008.65.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4630462
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Haleciidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Hincks
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Haleciidae Hincks, 1868 sec. Watson, 2008