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The Hydroid of the Medusa Dipurena Halterata (Forbes)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

W. J. Rees
W. J. Rees
Affiliation:
Research Assistant at the Plymouth Laboratory
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Although the medusa Dipurena halterata (Forbes, 1846) is well known, and has been figured by a number of authors (e.g. Forbes, 1848; Browne, 1897), the hydroid of this peculiar species has remained unknown. This medusa is rather scarce at Plymouth (Russell, 1938). On May 3 1938 I had the good fortune to find at Plymouth a small hydroid of the Syncoryne type which later liberated young medusae, and these proved to be young specimens of Dipurena halterata.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , May 1939 , pp. 343 - 346
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1939

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