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Development From Polyp to Stauromedusa in Stylocoronella (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. Kikinger  and
L. von Salvini-Plawen
R. Kikinger
Affiliation:
University of Vienna, Institute of Zoology, Althanstrafie 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
L. von Salvini-Plawen
Affiliation:
University of Vienna, Institute of Zoology, Althanstrafie 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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Within the interstitial Cnidaria, the Hydrozoa dominate, with ten mesopsammic genera (living in the interstitial water of sandy bottoms), while the Anthozoa and Scyphozoa are represented by one genus each (Clausen & Salvini-Plawen, 1986; Bouillon & Grohmann, 1990). The only mesopsammic scyphozoans described so far are the small solitary polyps of the genus Stylocoronella, which is represented by two species, S. riedli (Salvini-Plawen, 1966) and S. variabilis (Salvini-Plawen, 1987). Little information is available on reproduction and nothing is known about the life-cycle of these interstitial scyphopolyps. By establishing a culture of the two Stylocoronella species, their development into undescribed stauromedusae could be observed for the first time

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , November 1995 , pp. 899 - 912
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1995

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