Hydrozoa image
Pelagohydra mirabilis; floating polyp and young medusa
Description Drawn after preserved material. (a) floating polyp stage (mouth downwards) with some medusa buds; scale bar 2 mm. (b) Young medusa; scale bar 0.5 mm. (c) Oral view of tentacle bulb of young medusa, the adaxial side faces upwards; rc radial canal; te tentacle; scale bar 0.1 mm. (d) Nematocysts of medusa: stenotele, heteroneme (eurytele?), desmoneme, basitrichous isorhiza (?); the polyp stage has only stenoteles and desmonemes; scale bar 10 µm.
After: Schuchert P. 1996. The marine fauna of New Zealand: athecate hydroids and their medusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 106: 1-159.
see: source id. 27481
PNG file - 1.07 MB - 3 826 x 3 285 pixels added on 2025-01-29187 viewsHydrozoa taxaScan of drawing Pelagohydra mirabilis Dendy, 1902checked Schuchert, Peter 2025-01-29 Download full size
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Comment (0)
Disclaimer: Hydrozoa does not exercise any editorial control over the information displayed here. However, if you come across any misidentifications, spelling mistakes or low quality pictures, your comments would be very much appreciated. You can reach us by emailing Peter.Schuchert@ville-ge.ch, we will correct the information or remove the image from the website when necessary or in case of doubt.