Hydrozoa | 
Leptothecata | 
Haleciidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range				
				
					Ecology				
				
			
			
				Sessile; brackish; depth range 0 - 100 m (Ref. 86643).  Subtropical			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Western Atlantic.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
			
			
				Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm			
			
			
						
			
			
			
			
				
					Minimum depth from Ref. 116013. Known from tidal inlets, exposed areas of bays, including any ledges at their entrance, sounds, caves, shallow reefs and deeper coastal substrates (25-100m) of the offshore fore-reef slope (Ref. 86643).  Also found in Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, in patch reefs, mangrove islands, Thalassia sp. beds, back reef, high and low spur and groove zones, sand trough, outer ridge and fore-reef slopes on algae, Thalassia sp. blades, mangrove roots, hydroids and substrates composed of dead corals and gorgonians at depths of  2 to 31m.   As with other hydroids, this species exhibits a pelagic medusoid stage (Ref. 87156).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae				
			
			
				
					Reproduction occurs only in hydroid stage (Ref. 1663, p. 19).  Period of reproductive maturity recorded for Carrie Bow Cay, Belize is 21st of June, during which the sample collected had gonophores or medusa buds (Ref. 87156).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Migotto, A.E., A.C. Marques, A.C. Morandini and F.L. da Silveira 2002 Checklist of the cnidaria medusozoa of Brazil. Biota Neotropica  2(1):1-31. (Ref. 813)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (Ref. 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
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						Preferred temperature  					
				 (Ref. 
115969): 8.7 - 27.7, mean 23.3 (based on 734 cells).			
 
			
			
			
			
			
						
						
						
			
									
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