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SCYPHOZOANS [4 records]

Record 1 2017-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sponges, Hydrozoans and Jellyfish
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A marine class of the phylum Cnidaria.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éponges, hydres et méduses
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Classe d'invertébrés marins, de l'embranchement des Cnidaires.

Spanish

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Record 2 1987-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sponges, Hydrozoans and Jellyfish
OBS

[It is] a little club-shaped structure [in which] neurons are concentrated [in some scyphozoans. ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éponges, hydres et méduses
OBS

Il s'agit d'un organe sensitif [chez un Scyphozoaire.]

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A] nematocyst [is] one of the minute stinging cells or organs of hydrozoans, scyphozoans and anthozoans; e. g. a "thread cell" formed within a cnidoblast of a coral.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Un] nématoblaste [est une] cellule urticante [chez un] Cnidaire (...)

Spanish

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Record 4 1977-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

Locomotion [in scyphozoans] is brought about by a band of powerful circular fibers, the coronal muscle, that surrounds the subumbrella margin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

(...) le muscle annulaire (...) forme une large bande circulaire à la base des lobes (...) du sous-ombrelle [d'un Scyphozoaire]

Spanish

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