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Candelabrum cocksii
Candelabrum cocksii
Description Candelabrum cocksii (Vigurs, 1849) (Anthomedusae, Candelabriidae) from Brittany, size about 12 cm. This is one of the very large hydropolyps. It lives attached underneath boulders at the low water level. The spherical bodies are sporosac containing the gametes. This species produces thus no medusa. The author has granted permission to MarBEF/VLIZ to use this picture in ERMS and related biological databases hosted at VLIZ. Source: http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mhng/hydrozoa/hydrozoa-directory.htm Author Schuchert, Peter JPG file - 32.84 kB - 256 x 700 pixels added on 2006-12-201 971 viewsERMS taxa Candelabrum cocksii (Cocks, 1854)checked Schuchert, Peter 2010-11-05 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License
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