Hydroids of the BANZARE expeditions, 1929 – 1931: the family Haleciidae (Hydrozoa, Leptothecata) from the Australian Antarctic Territory
Author
Watson, Jeanette E.
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2008
2008-12-31
65
165
178
http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2008.65.9
journal article
7636
10.24199/j.mmv.2008.65.9
b20b7b3d-7fa7-4de7-87dd-9e00d48a6fa3
1447-2554
4630462
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.