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SCYPHISTOMA [2 records]

Record 1 2004-10-26

English

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

... the planula settles and forms a scyphistoma, a solitary attached reproductive polyp. From the free end of this polyp are then budded off a series of medusas.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éponges, hydres et méduses
CONT

La larve en se développant, forme directement un polype reproducteur unique, le strobile, qui bourgeonne pour former de jeunes méduses.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Esponjas, hidrozoarios y medusas
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Record 2 1977-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[A] scyphistoma (...) is a little polyploid larva [of the scyphozoan coelenterates] [which] looks very much like a hydra (...). [It] feeds and produces new scyphistomae by asexual budding (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

(...) le scyphistome (...) est un stade polype [des Scyphozoaires] qui donne une série de méduses par des divisions transversales.

Spanish

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