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Rhodaliidae

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Rhodaliids have a characteristic gas-secreting structure called aurophore. Below the enlarged pneumatophore (float), the siphosome and nectosome are contracted into a complex. Rhodaliids have a benthic lifestyle and use their tentacles to attach themselves to the seafloor.

Genera and species

Rhodaliidae contains the following subtaxa:

  • Angelopsis Fewkes, 1886
    • Angelopsis euryale Pugh, 1983
    • Angelopsis globosa Fewkes, 1886
  • Arancialia Hissmann, 2005
    • Arancialia captonia Hissmann, 2005
  • Archangelopsis Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908
    • Archangelopsis jagoa Hissmann, Schauer & Pugh, 1995
    • Archangelopsis typica Lens & van Riemsdijk, 1908
  • Dendrogramma Just, Kristensen & Olesen, 2014
  • Dromalia Bigelow, 1911
    • Dromalia alexandri Bigelow, 1911
  • Rhodalia Haeckel, 1888
  • Steleophysema Moser, 1924
    • Steleophysema aurophora Moser, 1924
  • Stephalia Haeckel, 1888
    • Stephalia bathyphysa (Haeckel, 1888)
    • Stephalia corona Haeckel, 1888
    • Stephalia dilata (Bigelow, 1911)
  • Thermopalia Pugh, 1983
    • Thermopalia taraxaca Pugh, 1983
  • Tridensa Hissmann, 2005
    • Tridensa rotunda Hissmann, 2005
    • Tridensa sulawensis Hissmann, 2005

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