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
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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at WoodsHole,Massa-chusetts. AleutianIslands andat Naba BayJapan. Yokohama,Japan. Gulf of Man-aar, nearCeylon. Suvadiva Atoll,MaldiveIslands, In-dian Ocean. Suva Harbor,Fiji Islands,southPacific. Remarks. Distinguished byvery high belland deep red-brown color. Closely alliedtoG.depressum. Distinguishedby numerouslithocysts. Color peculiar. Plate 45. Fig. 1. Gonionemus murbachn. Side view of mature medusa. Eel Pond,Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July 22, 1897. Fig. 2. Gonionemus murbachu. Oral view of a part of the bell-margin,showing the insertion of a tentacle, its bulbous base, and twolithocysts. Fig. 3. Gonionemus murbachu. Showing the outer end of a tentacle withits adhesive sucker and sharply bent extremity. Fig. 4. Gonionemus murbachii. Aboral view of the mature medusa, show-ing the confluence of the 4 radial-canals through an intermediatevessel. Fig. 4. Drawn from life by Dr. Arnold Graff and presented forreproduction by Dr. Louis Murbach. Other figures are from life, by theauthor.
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*8 Plate 46. Fig. I. Gonionemus murbachii, from Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Profileview of mature medusa, 1.25 times natural size. Fig. 2. Gonionemus murbachii. Oral view of the mature medusa. Fi°\ 3. Gonionemus murbachii. Oral view of a sector of the bell showingform of gonads, tentacles, lithocysts, and tentacle-bulbs. Fig. 4. Aglaura hemistoma. Meridional section showing exumbrella (ex),male gonad (g), circular muscles of the subumbrella (m), sub-umbrella ectoderm (s), and stomach-cavity (si). (See page 398.) Fig. 5. Aglaura hemistoma. Meridional section of the bell showing exum-brella (ex), circular muscles of the bell cut across (m), ring-canal(re), subumbrella ectoderm (s), tentacle (t), and velum (v). Fig. 6. Cubaia aphrodite, green variety. Key West, Florida, May 27, 1897.(See page 351.) Fig. 1 drawn from life by Mr. Hyashi. Figure 2, from life by Dr.Arnold Graff. These drawings were kindly lent for reproduction by Dr.Louis Murbach. Other drawings are from life, by the author.

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