''Abyla haeckeli'' is a colonial
siphonophore
Siphonophorae (from Ancient Greek σίφων (siphōn), meaning "tube" and -φόρος (-phóros), meaning "bearing") is an order within Hydrozoa, a class of marine organisms within the phylum Cnidaria. According to the World Register of Marine ...
in the family
Abylidae
The Abylidae are a family of marine invertebrates in the order Siphonophorae. They are Colony (biology), colonial, but the colonies can superficially resemble jellyfish; although they appear to be a single organism, each specimen is actually a co ...
. It was described in 1908.
Description
The species has an anterior