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Taxon
Halecium delicatulum Coughtrey, 1876
Nomenclature
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Family: HaleciidaeGenus: Halecium
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Synonyms: 3
SUMMARY
Colonies grow to 4 cm high, stems flexuous, profusely and irregularly branched.
Stems usually fascicled, segmented, each stem or branch internode bearing a hydrotheca near its distal end, hydrothecae alternate, given off in one plane. Several hydrothecae may grow successively each from the interior of the preceding one, the primary and secondary hydrothecae pedicellate, later (younger) hydrothecae shallow, saucer-shaped and expanding to the margin.
Hydranth with one whorl of about 16 filiform tentacles, too large to retract into the hydrotheca.
Gonothecae borne profusely on the stems and branches, male and female on different colonies, Male compressed, elongate-oval, walls smooth, female of the same compressed shape, with two opposite distal lobes, one on each side of a small terminal aperture. Female containing numerous ova.
Colour: Colonies usually yellow to pale orange, ova often pink.