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FIGURE 5 in Redescription of Alatina alata (Reynaud, 1830) (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) from Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean

  • 1. Biological Sciences Graduate Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; dkeil@umd.edu; clames1@umd.edu National Systematics Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, MRC-153, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. E-mail: collinsa@si.edu
  • 2. Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail:bastian.bentlage@gmail.com
  • 3. Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822, USA. E-mail:ayanagih@hawaii.edu
  • 4. Palm Beach County (FL) Schools, Boynton Beach Community High School, 4975 Park Ridge Boulevard, Boynton Beach, FL, 33426, USA. E-mail: william.gillan@palmbeachschools.org
  • 5. Kralendijk, Bonaire, The Netherlands. E-mail: blerkbonaire@hotmail.com
  • 6. Biology Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail: abely@umd.edu

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FIGURE 5. Cnidome of Alatina alata (all extracted from preserved material unless specified otherwise). A. Nematocyst bands along the length of the tentacle of a live specimen collected in Bonaire (June 2013). B. & E. Undischarged, microbasic heterotrichus p–euryteles extracted from tentacles; filaments associated with euryteles in B (USNM 1195807). C. Discharged microbasic heterotrichus p–eurytele extracted from tentacles of live medusa. D. Lancet contiguous with discharged tubule of microbasic heterotrichus p–eurytele extracted from tentacles (USNM 1195805) F. Small undischarged birhopaloid found in tentacles of preserved specimen USNM 1195807. G. Large undischarged holotrichus isorhizas found in nematocysts warts (i.e., bell warts & velarial lappet warts (USNM 1195802, neotype). H. Large discharged holotrichus isorhizas found in bell warts (USNM 1195802). H. Abbreviations: cp=capsule, fl=filaments, ln=lancet, nbnd=nematocyst band, sft=shaft, tb=tubule. Scale bars: ~150 µm (A), 10 µm (B, E, F), 25 µm (C), 20 µm (G, H).

Notes

Published as part of Lewis, Cheryl, Bentlage, Bastian, Yanagihara, Angel, Gillan, William, Blerk, Johan Van, Keil, Daniel P., Bely, Alexandra E. & Collins, Allen G., 2013, Redescription of Alatina alata (Reynaud, 1830) (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) from Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean, pp. 473-487 in Zootaxa 3737 (4) on page 481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5270497

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