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Scyllaeidae
| The family Scyllaeidae
includes elongate, laterally compressed dendronotaceans that have one
or two pairs of large, flattened latero-dorsal lobes.
Tiny transparent papillae, sometimes branching, cover the inner
surfaces
of the lobes and the notum functioning as gills. The rhinophores are
lamellate, tipped by a finger-like process and contained within a
sheath. Scyllaeids are hydroid feeders. They can "swim" by flexing
from side to side. There are at least three species recorded
from Hawaii
representing two genera (Notobryon and Scyllae). |
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