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Scientific Name: Lensia subtiloides
English Name: Not Known
Local/Bangla Name: Not Known
Photo: Nayeon Park, 2022
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Siphonophorae
Family: Diphyidae
Description:
The somatocyst has a club-shaped form, tilting toward the ventral wall of the nectophore. The hydroecium features a shallow conical depression situated at the level of the ostium. The mouth-plates are small, rounded, divided, and overlapping, with ridges resembling those in the anterior nectophore. The pedicular canal enters the nectosac nearly at the apex. A small tooth is present at the apex of the right hydroecial fold. The hydroecium is shallow, open, and grooved, while the mouth-plate is small, undivided, and rounded in shape. The sexes are separate in the eudoxid phase.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh
Environment:
Marine
Main References:
Kabir SMH, Ahmed M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M (eds) (2008) Encyclopedia of flora and fauna of Bangladesh. Protozoa-Gastrotricha. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. Vol.14, 335 pp.
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