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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.
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