Department of Zoology at ANDC/Zoology Museum/Museum specimens/Cnidaria/Sertularia

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SCIENTIFIC NAME-Sertularia  GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION-Cosmoplitan HABITAT-Marine hydroid found attached to the rocks and stones. IDENTIFYING FEATURES- COMMON CHARACTERS-
 * The colony consists of HYDRORHIZA which gives rise to vertical stems.
 * Vertical stems bears hydrotheca that arise from internodes in pair and lies opposite to each other.
 * The mouth of each hydrotheca is covered by a pair of operculum.
 * The gonangia are sessile ,oval and larger than hydrotheca and also bears blastostyles.
 * Blastostyles are reproductive zooids which come out from the mouth of gonangia.