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20 Jul 2012
A variety of species from the order Siphonophorae (image from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur: 1904) (top center): Epibulia ritteriana, mature colony (bottom right): Cystalia monogastrica, immature colony (center): Salacia polygastrica, colony (top left): Salacia polygastrica, gas bladder in cross-section (top right): Salacia polygastrica, gas bladder from above (bottom left): Salacia polygastrica,partial cluster of polyps (infertile) and medusae (fertile)

A variety of species from the order Siphonophorae (image from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur: 1904)

  1. (top center): Epibulia ritteriana, mature colony
  2. (bottom right): Cystalia monogastrica, immature colony
  3. (center): Salacia polygastrica, colony
  4. (top left): Salacia polygastrica, gas bladder in cross-section
  5. (top right): Salacia polygastrica, gas bladder from above
  6. (bottom left): Salacia polygastrica,partial cluster of polyps (infertile) and medusae (fertile)
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