Life Cycle of Tripedalia cystophora Conant (Cubomedusae)
Life Cycle of Tripedalia cystophora Conant (Cubomedusae)
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DOI：
10.1038/232582a0
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发表时间：
1971-08
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影响因子：
64.8
通讯作者：
B. Werner;C. Cutress;John P. Studebaker
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作者：
B. Werner;C. Cutress;John P. Studebaker
立方水母，通常被称为“箱水母”或“海黄蜂”，因为它们的形状，对一些人来说，他们的严重刺痛，是浅海热带地区的海洋居民。虽然它们已经被发现超过200年，并且已经对几个物种的形态进行了调查，但对它们的生活史知之甚少。在牙买加的科南特1号，能够将一种四触手的水螅培育成一种四触手的水螅。日本冈田2号（Okada 2）的Carybdea rastonito也处于同一时期。在这两种情况下，珊瑚虫都没有活到揭示其不寻常性质的年龄。因此，许多动物学家认为立方水母类是钵水母纲的一个异常目，这一观点仅仅来自于对水母世代的了解。这一信念，以及一些作者认为水螅是所有现代刺胞动物的茎型的观点3 - 6，促使人们努力阐明这一目一个成员的生活史。
THE Cubomedusae, commonly called “box jellies” or “sea wasps” because of their shape and, for some, their severe sting, are inhabitants of neritic tropical regions of the oceans. Though they have been known for more than 200 yr and the morphology of several species has been investigated1, little is known of their life histories. Conant1, in Jamaica, was able to rear the planula ofTripedalia cystophorato a four-tentacled polyp. Okada2, in Japan, rearedCarybdea rastonito approximately the same stage. In neither case did the polyps live to an age which revealed their unusual nature. The opinion, held by many zoologists, that the Cubomedusae are an aberrant order of the Class Scyphozoa has therefore derived from a knowledge of the medusa generation alone. This belief, and the view of some authors3–6that the polyp is the stem form of all recent Cnidaria, have led to efforts to elucidate the life cycle of a member of this order.