Bougainvilliidae
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Anthoathecata |
| Suborder: | Anthomedusae |
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Bougainvilliidae Lütken, 1850 |
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Atractylidae Hincks, 1868
Bimeridae Allman, 1872
Clavopsellidae Thiel, 1962
Dicorynidae Allman, 1864
Hippocrenidae McCrady, 1959
Lizusidae Haeckel, 1879
Margelidae Haeckel, 1879
Nemopsidae L.Agassiz, 1862
Pachycordylini Cockerell, 1911
Thamnostomidae Haeckel, 1879
Bougainvilliidae is a family of marine hydroids in the class Hydrozoa. Members of the family are found worldwide. There are sixteen accepted genera and about ninety three species.
Hydroids in this family can be solitary or colonial. When colonial, the hydranths or hydroid polyps are either linked by stolons or are branched. The hydranths have one or more whorls of fine tentacles. The gonophores are free-living medusae or are fixed sporosacs. The medusae are bell-shaped with a circular mouth and branched oral tentacles inserted above the rim of the mouth, ending in clusters of .
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