Abstract
The tubes of the polyp stages of all known species of the family Nausithoidae have been examined to find characters useful for specific identification. Such characters comprise both internal and external structures of the chitinous exoskeleton, measurements of the periderm, and the shape of the tubes defined by the Formquotient. A key for the polyp generation is given based on these characters. The long-term rearing of several species and elucidation of their life cycles has also enabled a key to the medusa generation of the Nausithoidae to be constructed. Stephanoscyphistoma gen. nov. is proposed for the polyps of all species of coronates of uncertain medusa genus.
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Jarms, G. Taxonomic characters from the polyp tubes of coronate medusae (Scyphozoa, Coronatae). Hydrobiologia 216, 463–470 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00026500
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