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

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=Classification=

Phylum - Cnidaria

Class - Hydrozoa

Order - Hydroida

Genus - Tubularia

=Geographical Distribution=

Found in Europe and California =Habitat=

It is a marine form found attached to piles in shallow water. =Identifying Features=
 * The colony of Tubularia consists of tufts of irregularly branched stems bearing hydranths arising from hydrorhiza.


 * Hydranths have long stalk and two sets of solid filiform tentacles.


 * Hydranths or polyps have flower like appearance.

=Common Characters=
 * Hydrocaulus is made up of transparent living tissue; coenosarc covered by perisarc.


 * Gonophores arise as hollow branches from the body of the hydranth between two sets of tentacles.


 * Colony is dioceous.


 * Meduases are borne by gonophores.


 * Reproduction occurs by both sexual and asexual means.