Medusae of the world . Trachymedusae with only 8 tentacles, one at the foot of each of the 8 radial-canals,other respects this genus is similar to Rhopalonema. In TRACHYMEDUSiE SMINTHEA, HOMCEONEMA. 383 Sminthea eurygaster Gegenbaur. Sminthea eurygaster, Gegenbaur, 1856, Zcit. fur wissen. Zool., Bd. 8, p. 245, taf. 9, fign. 14-15.—Metschnikoff, E., 1886, Arbeit. Zool. Inst. Wien, p. eurygaster, Agassiz, L., 1862, Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., vol. 4, p. eurygaster, Haeckel, 1879, Syst. der Medusen, p. 260.—Maas, 1893, Ergeb. dcr Plankton Exped., Bd. 2, , p. 12.—Browne,
Medusae of the world . Trachymedusae with only 8 tentacles, one at the foot of each of the 8 radial-canals,other respects this genus is similar to Rhopalonema. In TRACHYMEDUSiE SMINTHEA, HOMCEONEMA. 383 Sminthea eurygaster Gegenbaur. Sminthea eurygaster, Gegenbaur, 1856, Zcit. fur wissen. Zool., Bd. 8, p. 245, taf. 9, fign. 14-15.—Metschnikoff, E., 1886, Arbeit. Zool. Inst. Wien, p. eurygaster, Agassiz, L., 1862, Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., vol. 4, p. eurygaster, Haeckel, 1879, Syst. der Medusen, p. 260.—Maas, 1893, Ergeb. dcr Plankton Exped., Bd. 2, , p. 12.—Browne, 1906, Trans. Linnean Soc. London, ser. 2, Zool., vol. 10, p. mammtcjorme, Haeckel, 1879, Syst. der Medusen, p. 262. This is a rare medusa. Bell mm. wide and 2 mm. high. 8 radially placed tentaclesand 8 interradial lithocysts. Velum about half as wide as bell-height. Manubrium only aboutone-fourth to one-half as long as depth of bell-cavity. 8 gonads, small, globular to egg-shaped, 226. 226.
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