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Chelophyes appendiculata: Siphonophorae, Diphyidae
Chelophyes appendiculata: Siphonophorae, Diphyidae
Description Chelophyes appendiculata (Eschscholtz, 1829) (Siphonophorae, Diphyidae) from the Mediterranean (Villefranche-sur-Mer), about 2 cm. This is an extraordinary rapid swimmer for a medusa-like organism. It is composed of two successive swimming bells. The part resembling a bead-string is the siphosome with the gastrozooids. The author has granted permission to MarBEF/VLIZ to use this picture in ERMS and related biological databases hosted at VLIZ. Source: http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mhng/hydrozoa/hydrozoa-directory.htm Author Schuchert, Peter JPG file - 40.95 kB - 700 x 400 pixels added on 2006-12-2110 260 viewsPolychaeta taxa Hydrozoachecked Schuchert, Peter 2014-01-17 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License
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