Ectopleura L. Agassiz, 1862

Watson, Jeanette E., 2015, Five athecate hydroids (hydrozoa: anthoathecata) from south-eastern australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 73, pp. 19-26 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2015.73.03
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10666249
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scientific name	Ectopleura L. Agassiz, 1862
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Diagnosis. Hydroid solitary or colonial, hydrocaulus simple, with open lumen, without parenchymatic endoderm or longitudinal canals but weakly divided by two rarely up to five internal longitudinal endodermic ridges, perisarc thin, a collar on neck region that does not cover whole neck; hydranth vasiform with one whorl of filiform oral tentacles and a whorl of long, filiform aboral tentacles; gonophores borne above aboral tentacles producing either free medusae, eumedusoids or fixed sporosacs.