Home Acknowledgments Conventions Glossary Maps References Links Articles Thumbnails Species list Suborder Next family	Hancockiidae The family Hancockiidae includes elongate dendronotaceans with a series of dorso-lateral lobes or cerata on the notum that split into rosettes of finger-like processes. The rhinophores are retractile and the oral veil bears finger-like processes on each side. They feed on hydroids and, in this unusual family, nematocysts are stored in the rhinophoral sheaths as well as the cerata. One species is known from Hawaii in the genus Hancockia. Hancockia sp. #1
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