单词 | ephyra |
释义 | ephyraephyrulan. Zoology. A larval jellyfish, after separation from the scyphistoma. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Acalepha > member of (jelly-fish) > larval jellyfish ephyra1861 1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. ii. 66 Each Ephyra soon acquires a nutritive system. 1897 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. I. iv. 161 The saucer-like bodies separate from one another, and each, turning upside down, begins to swim about as a small jelly-fish called an Ephyrula... The umbrella of the ephyrula is divided into eight long bifid arms. 1898 A. Sedgwick Student's Text-bk. Zool. I. iv. 166 In rare cases (Pelagia) the development is simplified, and the larva passes directly into the Ephyra. 1916 H. S. Pratt Man. Invertebr. Animals 125 Each disc is called an ephyra..and is a young medusa or jellyfish, which on becoming free grows in time to be a sexual animal. 1923 R. Lulham Introd. Zool. (ed. 2) 41 Scyphistoma undergoing fission. Several Ephyrae have already floated off. 1940 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates I. vii. 507 This [sc. the scyphistoma] is often followed by a young, free-swimming medusan stage, the ephyra (or ephyrula). 1967 P. A. Meglitsch Invertebr. Zool. vi. 153 (caption) Scyphistomae live for several years..producing larval medusae known as ephyrae by transverse fission. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1861 |
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