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CCELENTERATA 



P. hyacinthina Steen. (Fig. 210). Medusa about 8 cm. high and 4 

 cm. wide; color reddish: GreenUind; Gulf Stream; cosmopolitan. 



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Fig. 210 

 Fig. 210 — PcriphyUa hyacinthina (Mayer) 



I^'ii 



Fig. 211 

 211 — NausithoiJ punctata (Mayer). 



Family 2. EPHYROPSIDAE. 



Usually 16 marginal lobes; 9 rhopalia and 8 or more tentacles: 

 3 genera and 11 species. 



1. Nausithoe Kolliker. Gonads 8; tentacles 8; marginal lobes 16; 

 ectoderm of bell M'ith clusters of small crystals: 6 species. 



N. punctata Koll. (Fig. 211). Medusa 10 mm. broad and 4 mm. 

 high; marginal tentacles stiff: cosmopolitan; Gulf Stream; common. 



2. LiNUCHE Eschscholtz. Similar to 

 Nausithoe but with sac-like gastric pouches : 

 2 species. 



L. unguiculata Eschs. (Fig. 212). 

 Medusa cylindrical or thimble-shaped, 13 

 mm. high and 16 mm. wide: Gulf stream; 

 often in swarms. 



Fig. 212 — Linuche unguiculata 

 (Mayer). 



Order 3. CUBOMEDUSAE. 



Body more or less cuboidal in form, 

 with a single interradial tentacle or a 

 group of tentacles at each of the 4 corners, 

 the bases of which are in most forms 

 expanded to form prominent flattened 

 structures called pedalia; rhopalia 4, between the tentacles; 4 wide gas- 

 tric canals in which are the plate-like gonads; false velum (velarium) 

 present, which together with their energetic swimming movements gives 

 the animals the appearance of craspedote medusae: 1 family and about 

 16 species. 



