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Soft tissue organization in some sertulariid colonial hydroids (Hydrozoa: Sertulariidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2008

S.V. Pyataeva  and
I.A. Kosevich
S.V. Pyataeva*
Affiliation:
Invertebrate Zoology Department, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
I.A. Kosevich
Affiliation:
Invertebrate Zoology Department, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: S.V. Pyataeva, Invertebrate Zoology Department, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia email: sonya.bio@mail.ru
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Abstract

The simplified text-book view holds that hydroids' soft body is composed of a branched double-layered tube, whose wall consists of two epithelial layers (the inner gastrodermis and the outer epidermis) separated by the mesoglea. Some hydroids are characterized by large, complex colonies and likely an even more complicated inner organization. By using three species from the thecate hydroids of the family Sertulariidae we investigated the soft body structure of such hydroids. The anatomical study revealed some new features of colonial hydroids. The double layered coenosarc fills the perisarc (outer skeleton) tube only at the endings of the branched colony. More proximally, the coenosarc tube becomes narrower and a thin epidermal lining covers the inner surface of the perisarc tube. In some species the soft tissues of the shoots form a network of anastomosing canals. The canals are formed by the gastrodermal epithelium and they are embedded in epidermal tissue. In the upper part of the shoot, these canals are located at the periphery, along the inner surface of the perisarc. In more proximal regions of the stem, the whole lumen of the perisarc tube can be occupied by gastrodermal canals; the canals are enclosed in a parenchyma-like epidermal tissue. The organization of the soft tissue in these thecate hydroids is a striking example of structural complexity that does not contravene the limits of the ground plan of the phylum.

Keywords

soft tissueorganizationsertulariidscolonial hydroidsSertulariidae
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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 88 , Special Issue 8: Hydrozoans , December 2008 , pp. 1703 - 1713
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2008

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