• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.199-205
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• 1994

In the life cycle of Coryne pusilla Gaertner, a medusa is lacking and the planula larvae represent the only known dispersive stage. The planula larvae crawled on the surface of culture vessel for about 21 hours after release, and settle down and start metamprohosis.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.343-351
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• 1994

The partial nucleotide sequences of 185 ribosomal RNA gene were compared for six cnidarian species (one belongs to class Hvdrozoa: Coryne pusilla. Five belong to class Anthozoa: Beflonella rigida from Octocorallia; Anemonia sulcutu, Anthopfeura kurognne, An thopleura midori from Hexacorallia: Cerianthus filiformis from Ceriantipatharial. The aligned sequence data were used to test the hypothesis on the anthozoan phylosenv by using the distance matrix method and parsimony method. The phvlosenetic inferences resulting from these methods indicate that the anthozoan is a monophvletic group and support the three subclass scheme (Octocorallia, HexBcorallia, Ceriantipatharial within class Anthozoa. The result also indicates that ceriantipatharian is more primitive than the other groups and that family Actiniidae is a monophvletic group within the anthozoan. However, the present analysis does not clearly indicate the phvlogenetic relationships of species among genera.