Candelabridae de Blainville, 1830
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https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2007.64.10 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8740D513-FF90-903C-6A67-D34612E31F84 |
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Felipe |
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Candelabridae de Blainville, 1830 |
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Family Candelabridae de Blainville, 1830 View in CoL
Solitary hydroids; hydranth elongated, body cylindrical to tapering, divided into 3 regions: a basal region (hydrorhiza), a mid-region (blastostyle) and an elongate body with a circular distal mouth. Hydrorhiza short, stout with tubular or root-like adhesive processes, with or without perisarc; body with thickened mesolamella and gastrodermal villi and numerous scattered, capitate tentacles, simple or compound; gonophores developing directly on hydranth or on blastostyles in a budding zone below body.
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