Halimedusa typus Bigelow, 1916
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Family:  Halimedusidae ()
Max. size:  1.3 cm WD (male/unsexed)
Environment:  pelagic; marine
Distribution:  Eastern Pacific.
Diagnosis:  Measures 16 mm high and 13 mm wide; cruciform manubrium with a small quadrate mouth on a broad low peduncle, gonads extending out towards the 4 straight, smooth radial canals; 4 perradial tentacles and 4 interradial groups of 10-11 tentacles, all with red or purple-black ocelli on their basal bulbs; transparent umbrella with a whitish gonad and a dark line running out each perradial gonad (Ref. 2376).
Biology: 
IUCN Red List Status: Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
Threat to humans: 
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