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Turritopsis polycirrha (Keferstein 1862)

Biology

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liefe cycle incompletely known

Reference

van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).

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Distribution

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Turritopsis nutricula is likely not present along the Euroean coasts; all well documented cases belong either to T. polycirrha (Keferstein, 1862) or to T. dohrnii (see Schuchert, 2004. The distribution of T. plycirrha is North-East Atlantic. T. nutricula is confined to the Western Atlantic
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