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populations have more haplotype diversity than all four of the North Atlantic populations, which indicates that the North Atlantic population is more recently established than the Pacific population. The minimum estimated age of the New Brunswick population is between 47 and 143 thousand years old. Including the Massachusetts population, this number is between 82 and 150 thousand years, but Iceland has the oldest estimated population with the minimum age ranging from 68 to 204 thousand years old.
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than the New Brunswick population. The more recent expansion of these haplotypes demonstrates the southward movement of hydroid populations, possibly due to climate change. The North Atlantic populations contain ancestral haplotypes, which differ from the populations in Japan and New Zealand. Pacific
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The planulae are free-swimming for a while but eventually attach themselves to some solid surface, where they begin their reproductive phase of life. Once attached to a substrate, a planula quickly develops into one feeding polyp. As the polyp grows, it begins developing branches of other feeding
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starts and later becomes intracellular. They have incomplete digestive tracts where the food enters, is digested, and expelled through the same opening. Scientists are trying to pinpoint their food preferences, but experiments have shown Obelia feeding on crustaceans under lab conditions, and
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have medusa buds. These medusa buds differentiate Obelia from others in the family Campanulariidae because development begins from a bud within the gonotheca. Eventually the buds are lost, and subsequent development shares resemblances with other hydranths. Other hydranths are specialized for
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from their size in length and diameter, as well as their smaller hydrothecal cusps and relatively thinner perisarc thickness. Some morphological traits are hard to distinguish across species, so observing a combination of these traits will help with identification. Other useful observable
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and microplanktonic sex through grazers. During the polyp stage, the mouth is situated at the top of the body, surrounded by tentacles, whereas during the medusa stage, the mouth is situated at the distal end of the main body structure. Four gonads lie in this main body structure, or
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was first documented in these areas in the 1990s but were later found in Massachusetts and Japan in the 2000s. There are three reciprocally monophyletic clades of Obelia, one branch for the North Atlantic, one for Japan, and one for New Zealand. There seems to be an ancestral
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Boero, Ferdinando; Bucci, Cecilia; Colucci, Anna Maria Rosaria; Gravili, Cinzia; Stabili, Loredana (10 September 2007). "Obelia (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Campanulariidae): a microphagous, filter-feeding medusa: Feeding of Obelia medusae".
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characteristics are branching pattern of colonies and length of trophosome. There are variations and exceptions to these, which makes identification even more difficult.
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are usually found no deeper than 200 metres (660 ft) from the water's surface, growing in intertidal rock pools and at the extreme low water of spring tides.
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The next generation of the life cycle begins when the medusae are released from the gonozooids, producing free swimming male only medusae velum with
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Cornelius, P.F.S., 1995b. North-West European thecate hydroids and their Medusae. Part 2. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), No 50.
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Cornelius, P.F.S., 1990a. European Obelia (Cnidaria, Hydroida): systematics and identification. Journal of Natural History 24: 535-578.
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have longer first and second order branches, in addition to a greater variation in hydrothecal cusp length than others in the genus.
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When morphometry meets taxonomy: morphological variation and species boundaries in Proboscoida (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa),
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was later accepted as a legitimate species, but taxonomy regarding the entire genus is debated over.
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Some taxonomic information also came from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
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differs from the previous species due to their more cylindrical and longer hydrothecal cusps.
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that occurs in the North Atlantic populations from Massachusetts, New Brunswick, and Iceland
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Mitochondrial evolution and phylogeography in the hydrozoan Obelia geniculata (Cnidaria),
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can only be determined by observing the inside of the gonads, which will either contain
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has a worldwide distribution except the high-Arctic and Antarctic seas. and a stage of
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Obelia (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Campanulariidae): a microphagous, filter-feeding medusa,
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Prey capture by the cosmopolitan hydromedusae, Obelia spp. in the viscous regime,
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is characterized by a thicker perisarc with more variation that other species of
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Estimates of divergence times and distinctive haplotypes provide evidence of
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species are common in coastal and offshore plankton around the world.
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Marine Life: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Invertebrates in the Sea
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Cunha, Amanda; Collins, Allen; Marques, Antonio (20 November 2019).
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filling the area between the two true tissue layers. They carry a
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Govindarajan, AF; Halanych, KM; Cunningham, CW (17 August 2004).
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individuals, thus forming a new generation of polyps by asexual
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defense. The main stalky body of the colony is composed of a
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (Volume 1: Lower Animals)
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F. Boero, C. Bucci, A.M.R. Colucci, C. Gravili, L. Stabili;
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around Iceland and southeastern Canada. In one study,
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stages in their life cycle. Hydrozoa belongs to the
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Campanulariidae
Obelia
Obelia dichotoma
Obelia geniculata
Obelia bidentata
Obelia longissima
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medusa
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gastrozooids

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