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On the First Stage of the Medusa Eucheilota Clausa (Hincks)[= E. Hartlaubi Russell]
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
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In the last number of this Journal (Russell, 1936) I described under the name Eucheilota hartlaubi the adult and various stages of a medusa that is fairly common in the Plymouth plankton but had up till then remained undescribed. This medusa was identified with an unnamed medusa which Hartlaub had figured as having been reared from the hydroid Lovénella clausa Lovén.
On March 10th, 1936, some Lovénella clausa kept in this laboratory by Mr. W. J. Rees liberated medusæ. Mr. Rees kindly handed these over to me so that I could follow the early development. When first liberated the medusa was conically bell-shaped (Fig. 1) and there were scattered nematocysts on the exumbrella. There were two fully developed opposite perradialtentacles, and two non-tentacular perradial bulbs. Rudiments of spiral cirri were developing on either side of the tentacular bulbs. There were four interradial marginal cirri each of which was situated on the umbrella margin about midway between the tentacular and nontentacular bulbs.On the tentacle sides of each of these marginal cirri was a marginal vesicle with a single concretion. The medusa was 0.75 mm. high by 0.75 mm. broad. The colour of the tentacular and non-tentacular bulbs and the stomach was pale straw. By the next day the umbrella had assumed amore oval bell-shape and the colour of the bulbs and stomach was now a bright orange-yellow. OnMarch 12th the medusa was now 0.9 mm. high and the rudiments of cirri were developing on one side of each non-tentacular bulb (Fig. 2).
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , November 1936 , pp. 131 - 133
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- Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1936
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