. Breviora. V. %^^ 1V '.^*;;^; •ct^-. B discovered (Leloup, 1934, p. 11). This suggests that when more is known about this family, differences in the structure of somatocyst and canals may prove to be of specific rather than generic value. If, then, we consider that the shape of the somatocyst is in all probability a specific character in Nedo-pyramis, as may be the case among other prayids, we have two species originally described by Bigelow (1911a; 1911b), N. theiis and A'', diomcdeae, both of which had branched somatocysts, but simple radial canals and two species, N. cuspitata Moser and
. Breviora. V. %^^ 1V '.^*;;^; •ct^-. B discovered (Leloup, 1934, p. 11). This suggests that when more is known about this family, differences in the structure of somatocyst and canals may prove to be of specific rather than generic value. If, then, we consider that the shape of the somatocyst is in all probability a specific character in Nedo-pyramis, as may be the case among other prayids, we have two species originally described by Bigelow (1911a; 1911b), N. theiis and A'', diomcdeae, both of which had branched somatocysts, but simple radial canals and two species, N. cuspitata Moser and A^ spinosa n. sp. (described below) with simple tubular somatocysts. The two latter are both spiny, but the two are readily distinguished for Moser's species is irregularly covered by the spines, but in spinosa these are arranged in regular rows along more or less distinct Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. , Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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