Haleciidae Hincks 1868

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Jeanette E.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2008
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Haleciidae
Antarc*
Antarctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4630617
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Summary: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. 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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