Aglantha digital
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Aglantha digital is a jellyfish - kind from the family of rhopalonematidae .
description
Aglantha digital becomes 10 to 40 millimeters long, the shade diameter is about half the height. It is thimble-shaped with a small, conical extension at the top. The side walls are thin and the muscles under the umbrella are very pronounced. The stem in the center of the body, serving as the digestive tract, is slender, the stomach is small, and the mouth has four simple lips. The eight elongated gonads are located below the umbrella, near the base of the stem . The animals have 80 or more uniform tentacles and eight club-shaped statocysts on the edge .
distribution
The species occurs in all northern seas and also in the North and Western Baltic Seas.
swell
- Jean Bouillon, Ferdinando Boero: Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species , in: Thalassia Salentina, Vol. 24, 2000, PDF Online
- PL Kramp: Synopsis of the Medusae of the World. , in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1961, Vol. 40, PDF Online