JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 11 | NUMBER 3 | PAGES 609-614 | 1989
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Two types of excretory pores in the hydrozoan medusa Aequorea victoria (Murbach and Shearer, 1902)
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
Received on June 16, 1988; accepted on December 9, 1988 Aequorea victoria medusae possess radial canal excretory pores which egest large particles from the gastrovascular system in addition to marginal excretory papillae on the tentacle bulbs which egest finer particles.