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Identifier: medusaeofworld02mayo (find matches)
Title: Medusae of the world
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922 Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough, 1868-1922
Subjects: Jellyfishes Cnidaria
Publisher: Washington, D.C., Carnegie institution of Washington
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he original specimens studied by Maas (1897) and those of VanhofFen(1902) were not fully grown; those of the Siboga expedition described by Maas, 1905, beingconsiderably larger. Bigelow, 1909, finds that the manubrium varies greatly in length. Browne, 1906, records a small specimen from a depth of 250 fathoms to surface in theBay of Biscay. Bigelow, 1909, records it from the eastern tropical Pacific and states thatit belongs to the intermediate bathymetric fauna. Homoeonema platygonon Maas. Homaonema platygonon, Maas, 1893, Ergcb. der Plankton Exped., Bd. 2, K.c, p. 15, taf. 1, fig. 8.—Browne, 1903, BergensMuseums Aarbog, No. 4, p. 21, plate 2, figs. 2, 3; 1906, Trans. Linnean Soc. London, Zool., ser. 2, vol. 10, p. 174- Bell somewhat higher than a hemisphere, with a low, small, dome-like apical projectionand thin walls. Bell 2 to 4 mm. wide and about 2 mm. high. There are 40 to 80 closelycrowded tentacles, all of similar appearance, but all were broken off short. There are 4 vesic-
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Fig. 232.—Homaonema platygonon, after Browne, in Bergens Museums Aarbog, 1903. Fig. 233.—Homaonema platygonon, after Browne, in Bergens Museums Aarbog. Fig. 234—Homaonema platygonon, after Maas, in Ergeb. der Plankton Expedition. Fig. 235.—Homaonema militare, after Maas, in Ergeb. der Plankton Expedition. Fig. 236.—Homaonema amplum, after Vanhbffen, in deutsch. Tiefsee Expedition Valdivia. ular lithocysts, near the interradial points of 4 alternate octants. Bell-margin studded withnematocysts. Velum is about one-fourth as wide as bell-radius. There are 8 straight, fairlywide radial-canals and a simple ring-canal. Stomach very short, being only about one-fourthas long as depth of bell-cavity, and there are 4 short, simple lips. When fully expanded,however, the mouth becomes a round opening according to Browne, 1906. The cavity at the base of the stomach extends up into the aboral dome-like apex of thebell. The gonads form a broad band around the base of the stomach and extend

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