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Turritopsis rubra, medusae and polyps from Wellington Harbour, NZ

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Drawn from life. (a) Adult medusa with embryonal cleavage stages and larvae on the manubrium; scale bar 1 mm. (b) Nematocysts in pairs of undischarged and discharged capsules, top row from medusa: eurytele from tentacle, desmoneme, and eurytele from manubrium; lower row from polyp stage: eurytele, desmoneme, and rare mastigophore; scale bar 10 µm. (c) Polyp colony with medusa buds; scale bar 2 mm. (d) Microscopic schema of stem region of polyp colony showing the characteristic double-layered structure of the perisarc (ps), cs: coenosarc; scale bar 50 µm. (e) Very young medusa; scale bar 0.5 mm.

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. [as misidentified Turritopsis nutricula]
see: source id. 27481

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