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Bythotiara parasitica; after living material from New Zealand
Bythotiara parasitica; after living material from New Zealand
Description (a) Polyp colony with medusae buds, from the oral tentacles of an ascidian; the two polyps to the left are contracted; scale bar 0.2 mm. (b) nematocysts of polyp phase in pairs of native and discharged capsules: microbasiceuryteles, desmonemes, atrichous isorhiza; scale bar 10 µm. (c) Newly released medusa, same scale as (a). (d) Nematocysts of newly released medusa: microbasic mastigophores (top), microbasic euryteles with long shaft, microbasic euryteles with short shaft, desmonemes; same scale as (b). (e) Male Bythotiara medusa, most probably the adult of B. parasitica, found in the plankton near the site were also the polyp occurs.

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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