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Order Coronatae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Extract

Scyphomedusae with the umbrella margin cleft into lappets; with a single mouth opening provided with simple lips; with sense organs (rhopalia) and solid marginal tentacles arising from clefts between the lappets; with a circular, coronal furrow in the exumbrella, and peripheral to this a zone of gelatinous thickenings (pedalia) divided by radiating clefts alternating in position with the tentacles and rhopalia.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1961

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References

* F. S. Russell tells me that he has now seen some specimens with 22 tentacles.