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Lovenellidae
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The Lovenellidae are a hydrozoan family of the suborder Conica. Their hydroids live together in upright stolonal or sympodial colonies, and their gonophores are pedunculate free-roaming medusae.
The relationships of this fairly small but distinctive radiation to other conican Leptomedusae are not well understood at present. The Haleciidae have served as a " wastebin taxon" for unidentifiable medusae; they contained several species that have been identified as gonophores of Lovenellidae, and as per standard practice have been moved to the hydroids' family.