Northern jellyfish - Northern jellyfish

Japanese: キタクラゲ - きたくらげ
Northern jellyfish - Northern jellyfish

…Many species have both polyp and medusa forms, but not many species have both forms in the same life cycle. The Kitakurage, found in the Akkeshi region of Hokkaido, and the freshwater Moon jellyfish, are easy to spot because their medusas are about 20 mm in diameter, but the Kitakurage polyps are only 0.3 to 0.5 mm tall and have only one tentacle, while the Moon jellyfish polyps are about 1 mm long, do not have long tentacles, and are sometimes covered in mud, making them difficult to find. Hydrocorals such as Gypsophila and Itamirepora have a hard skeleton made by the coenchyma secreting calcareous matter, but there are two types of polyps, finger-like polyps that capture food, and nutritive polyps that digest food, with a division of labor. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Northern jellyfish" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ポリプとクラゲの両方の型をもつものが多いが,一つの生活史で両方の型が明らかにされている種類はそう多くはない。北海道の厚岸(あつけし)地方に産するキタクラゲや淡水産のマミズクラゲなどはクラゲの直径が20mmほどで容易に気がつくが,キタクラゲのポリプは高さ0.3~0.5mmで1本の触手をもっているにすぎず,またマミズクラゲのポリプは1mmほどで長い触手をもたず,ときに泥をかぶっているので簡単には発見できない。 ギサンゴやイタミレポラのようなヒドロサンゴ類は共肉が石灰質を分泌してかたい骨格をつくるが,ポリプには餌をとらえる指状ポリプと餌を消化する栄養ポリプの2種類があって分業している。…

※「キタクラゲ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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