Family HALOCLAVIDAE Verrill, 1899

Museums

Regional Maps

• Haloclavidae Verrill, A.E. 1899. Descriptions of imperfectly known and new Actinians, with critical notes on other species, II. American Journal of Science and Arts 4 7: 41-50 [41].

  Type genus:

   Haloclavus Verrill, 1899.

Diagnosis

Body elongate, aboral end physa-like or forming a physa sometimes broadly adherent. Column either smooth or with hollow or solid papillae or suckers rarely with cinclides, rarely divisible into physa, scapus, and scapulus. No sphincter or rarely a weak or moderately developed diffuse one. Tentacles short, sometimes capitate, usuall simple, never numerous, inner shorter or same length as outer ones. A single, ventral, usually very strong siphonglyph, which is occasionally more or less completely separated from the other part of the actinopharynx, and sometimes drawn out at its oral end into a more or less folded conchula. Perfect pairs of mesenteries varying in number, usually they are all macrocnemes. Retractors usually strong.

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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