WoRMS taxon details
Balellidae Stechow, 1922 AphiaID: 266991
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Balellidae (Family)
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| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Filifera | |||||||||||||
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original description Stechow, E., 1922. Zur Systematik der Hydrozoen, Stromatoporen, Siphonophoren, Anthozoen und Ctenophoren. Arch. Naturgesch. -88 3: 141-155., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47606#page/507/mode/1up [details] [show all] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa (2) [show all] [sort alpha..] | Genus Balella Stechow, 1919 Genus Balea Nutting, 1906 accepted as Balella Stechow, 1919 (preoccupied by Balea Prideaux, 1844 [Gastropoda]) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Link |  To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note | From editor or global species database
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] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266991 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2010). Balellidae Stechow, 1922. In: Schuchert, P. (2017). World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266991 on 2017-10-21 | ||||||||||||||
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