Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island & McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

CNIDARIA
sea anemones, soft coral, hydroids, jellyfish

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anemone Artemidactis victrix	anemone Edwardsia sp. either E. meridionalis or E. intermedia
anemone Edwardsiella ignota	anemone Hormathia lacunifera
anemone Isotealia antarctica	anemone Stomphia selaginella

anemone Urticinopsis antarctica

unidentified anemones

scyphomedusa Desmonema glaciale	Duncecap or helmet jelly Periphylla periphylla
scyphomedusa Diplulmaris antarctica	narcomedusa Solmundella bitentaculata
leptomedusa	trachymedusa
physonect siphonphore Bargmannia sp.	physonect siphonphore

soft coral Alcyonium antarcticum stoloniferous soft coral Clavularia frankliniana

nephtheid soft coral Gersemia antarctica

athecate hydroid Monocaulus microrhiza

athecate hydroid Monocaulus parvula

thecate hydroid Ophiodes arboreus	athecate hydroid Tubularia sp.
unidentified hydroids
sea whips	gorgonian, family Ellisellidae probably Ctenocella sp.

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