Date & Time : 5, November 2024 21:42
SCIENTIFIC NAME-Sertularia
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION-Cosmoplitan
HABITAT-Marine hydroid found attached to the rocks and stones.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES-
- The colony consists of HYDRORHIZA which gives rise to vertical stems.
- Vertical stems bears hydrotheca that arise from internodes in pair and lies opposite to each other.
- The mouth of each hydrotheca is covered by a pair of operculum.
COMMON CHARACTERS-
- The gonangia are sessile ,oval and larger than hydrotheca and also bears blastostyles.
- Blastostyles are reproductive zooids which come out from the mouth of gonangia.
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