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Coryne japonica, polyp and medusa from New Zealand
Description All drawn from life. (a) Cultivated polyp stage with medusa buds; scale bar 0.5 mm. (b) Nematocysts of polyp stage: stenoteles; scale bar 10 µm. (c) Newly released medusa; scale bar 0.5 mm. (d) Side and frontal view of tentacle bulbs, scale bar 0.2 mm. (e) Adult medusa from culture, same scale as (c). (f) Part of tentacle with tuft of long, stiff cilia; scale bar 50 µm. (g) Nematocysts of young medusa: stenotele, desmonerne, exumbrellar mastigophore, same discharged; scale bar as in (b).
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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