Family ALICIIDAE Duerden, 1895

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Regional Maps

• Aliciidae Duerden, J.E. 1895. On the genus Alicia (Cladactis), with an anatomical description of A. costae, Panc. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15: 213-218 [215].

  Type genus:

   Alicia Johnson, 1861.

Diagnosis

Thenaria with broad pedal disc. Column with simple or compound vesicles or with pseudotentacles which are branched at their ends. Vesicles may also occur on pseudotentacles. Smooth upper part of column with weak longitudinal muscles, and spots containing spirocysts and few nematocysts. No distinct sphincter. Margin tentacular. Tentacles long to rather long with spots as in the upper part of the column. 2 siphonoglyphs. Pairs of perfect mesenteries 6, sterile or fertile. 2 pairs of directives. Retrators weak or rather strong but always diffuse.

General References

Carlgren, O. 1949. A survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Ventenskapsakademiens Handlingar 1: 1–121

Fautin, D.G. 2011. Hexacorallians of the World. http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm

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