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Bougainvillia platygaster, medusa, after preserved material from Nerw Zealand
Description Oblique view on mature medusa. The widely open mouth is likely a fixation artefact, but conforms with Haeckel's original description.
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
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