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Balellidae Stechow, 1922 
AphiaID: 266991

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Filifera
Sources  original description: Stechow, E., 1922. Zur Systematik der Hydrozoen, Stromatoporen, Siphonophoren, Anthozoen und Ctenophoren. Arch. Naturgesch. -88 3: 141-155. [details]

basis of record: Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C.; Pagès, F.; Gili, J.-M.; Boero, F. (2006). An introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 194. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-580-1. 591 + 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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[show all]		 Genus Balella Stechow, 1919

Genus Balea Nutting, 1906 accepted as Balella Stechow, 1919
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Note  Diagnosis: Hydroid colonies erect, branched, polysiphonic. Hydranths polymorphic. Gastrozooids with club-shaped body and with two well separated whorls of tentacles. Gonozooids with either one tentacle or none, with one whorl of gonophores. Dactylozooids small, tentacle- like. Gonophores released as immature medusae. Young medusa with four filiform tentacles, manubrium simple.  [details]
Image 
Balella mirabilis (Nutting, 1906)
Balella mirabilis (Nutting, 1906)
added on 2013-06-06 - author: Schuchert, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-06 16:27:27
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266991
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-10 07:31:11Z  created  Decock, Wim
2009-04-28 12:00:23Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
2010-09-03 11:32:00Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Balellidae Stechow, 1922. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266991 on 2013-06-20
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