Medusae of the world . Fig. 166. Eulima campanulata. After Haeckel, 1879. Fig. 167. Young medusa. From life, by the Station, Naples, February 5, 1908. Sideview and details of a quadrant of bell-margin. diameter. Stomach urn-shaped, 4-sided, short, with 4 recurved lips having folded linear gonads are found upon the suburnbrella regions of the 4 narrow radial-canalsand also upon the peduncle about half-way between the stomach and the base of the there are 2 gonads on each of the 4 radial-canals. The 4 gonads on the suburnbrellaare fully twice as long a
Medusae of the world . Fig. 166. Eulima campanulata. After Haeckel, 1879. Fig. 167. Young medusa. From life, by the Station, Naples, February 5, 1908. Sideview and details of a quadrant of bell-margin. diameter. Stomach urn-shaped, 4-sided, short, with 4 recurved lips having folded linear gonads are found upon the suburnbrella regions of the 4 narrow radial-canalsand also upon the peduncle about half-way between the stomach and the base of the there are 2 gonads on each of the 4 radial-canals. The 4 gonads on the suburnbrellaare fully twice as long as those on the peduncle. Stomach, canal-system, gonads, and tentaclesmore or less greenish, sometimes verdigris-green or emerald-green. This form is described by Haeckel from the Canary Islands. Medusae similar to theabove, but with 8 to 16 tentacles, are found quite commonly in surface-tows in the Mediter-ranean and off the Atlantic coasts of France, Great Britain, and Germany. According toGraeffe, 1884, the medusae a
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