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Description: Parasitic cnidarian Polypodium hydriforme: A – stolon stage just after emerging from the host oocyte; B – Four specimens of free-living Polypodium with 12 tentacles.
Title: Polypodium hydriforme
Credit: Evans, N. M., Linder, A., Raikova, E. V., Collins, A. G., Cartwright, P. (2008). Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 139. Fig. 1 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-139
Author: Ekaterina V. Raikova
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