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Family Laingiidae
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Class
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Hydrozoa
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No. of Genera in Ref.
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3
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No. of Species in Ref.
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4
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Environment
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Fresh : No |
Brackish : No |
Marine : Yes
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First Fossil Record
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Remark
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Laingiomedusae with umbrella divided by peronial grooves of similar structures so that umbrellar margin is lobed; four radial canals; no typical circular canal but a solid core of endodermal cells around umbrella margin; tentacles solid, inserted on the exumbrellae surface above bell margin; alternating with the tentacles there may be narrow exumbrellar cnidocysts bands or triangular ciliated fileds; manubrium simple, quadrangular, tubular or conical; mouth opening quadrangular to circular; Gonads in four masses on the manubrium or as epidermal lining of interradial pockets of the manubrium; marginal sense organs apparently missing. Cnidome include macrobasic mastigophores or macrobasic euryteles (Ref. 3134).
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