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Chelophyes appendiculata: Siphonophorae, Diphyidae Description: Chelophyes appendiculata (Eschscholtz, 1829) (Siphonophorae, Diphyidae) from the Mediterranean (Villefranche-sur-Mer), about 2 cm. This is an extraordinary rapid swimmer for a medusa-like organism. It is composed of two successive swimming bells. The part resembling a bead-string is the siphosome with the gastrozooids. The author has granted permission to MarBEF/VLIZ to use this picture in ERMS and related biological databases hosted at VLIZ. Source: http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mhng/hydrozoa/hydrozoa-directory.htm Author: Schuchert, Peter JPG file - 40.95 kB - 700 x 400 pixels added on 2006-12-21 - 1212 views WoRMS Taxa on this image: Hydrozoa - checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-17 16:40:20 Siphonophorae - checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-17 16:40:20 Chelophyes appendiculata (Eschscholtz, 1829) - checked by Schuchert, Peter on 2013-06-17 16:40:20
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