Atorella vanhoeffeni Bigelow, 1909
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Family:  Atorellidae ()
Max. size:  0.7 cm WD (male/unsexed)
Environment:  pelagic; marine
Distribution:  Eastern Pacific: Panama, USA and Canada.
Diagnosis:  0.7 cm wide, 0.3 to 0.5 cm high; exumbrella with nematocyst warts; ring furrow deep and marginal lappets long, oval 80 to 100 gastric cirri in each of the four groups. Each group arising from a stout gelatinous peduncle; four leaf-shaped gonads; tentacles with a terminal knob-shaped.
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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