| Halicreas | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Trachymedusae |
| Family: | Halicreatidae |
| Genus: | Halicreas Fewkes, 1882 |
| Species: | H. minimum |
| Binomial name | |
| Halicreas minimum Fewkes, 1882 | |
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Halicreas minimum is a species of deep sea hydrozoan of the family Halicreatidae. [1] It is the only species in the monotypic genus Halicreas.
Umbrella 30–40 mm wide, thick, disk-like, with small apical projection; 8 clusters of gelatinous papillae above margin, mouth wide circular opening; 8 broad, band-like, radial canals; broad circular canal; gonads flattened, extending along almost entire length of radial canals; tentacles up to 640; 3-4 statocysts in each octant.
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