 | This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. (December 2011) |
| Lovenellidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Subclass: | Hydroidolina |
| Order: | Leptothecata |
| Family: | Lovenellidae Russell, 1953 |
| Synonyms | |
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Lovenellidae is a family of hydrozoans. Their hydroids live together in upright stolonal or sympodial colonies, and their gonophores are pedunculate free-roaming medusae.[1] The relationships of this fairly small but distinctive radiation to other members of the order Leptothecata are not well understood at present.
- ^ Schuchert (2005)