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difference between obelia and Aurelia

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Answered by Scotty
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Difference # Obelia:

A. Medusa:

1. It has a small size, often called swimming bell and the medusa is produced by bud­ding from blastostyles of polypoid obelia colony.

2. Medusa phase is reduced.

3. The bell margin is entire and is provided with few long, solid tentacles.

4. The velum contains an endodermal ring canal. Craspedote medusa.

5. Oral arms absent and the manubrium is comparatively elongated.



6. Gastric ridges and gastric filaments are absent.

7. Muscle strands are derived from both epidermis and gastro dermis.

8. Ocelli and olfactory pits are absent.

9. Statocysts are ectodermal and unprotected by hood and marginal lappets.



10.Gonads lie on radial canals externally and the gametes are ectodermal.

11.The sub genital pit is absent.

B. Polyp:

12. Obelia colony or polypoid stage is the dominant phase; the adult form is trimorphic.

13. Hydrocaulus and hydrorhiza separable into perisarc and coenosarc.

14. Life history is remarkable for metagen­esis.

C. Development:

15. Fertilization is external, occurring in water.

16. The cleavage is holoblastic and equal.



17. Planula larva is without a blastopore and coelenteron.

18. Planula finally grows into a simple hydrula stage which by repeated bud­ding, produces obelia colony.

Difference # Aurelia:

1. The size is large, often called jelly fish, and is formed by metamorphosis of ephyra, which is produced by strobilation of scyphistoma.

2. Medusa phase is dominant.

3. The bell margin is notched at eight radii having tentaculocysts and beset with many small tentacles.

4. Velum is absent but the velarium contain­ing endodermal canal is present. Acraspedote medusa.

5. Four long oral arms, one at each corner of the four-sided mouth. The manubrium is comparatively short.

6. Gastric ridges bearing endodermal gas­tric filaments are pre-sent.

7. Muscle strands are derived only from the epidermis.

8. Ocelli and olfactory pits are present.

9. Tentaculocysts are endodermal and pro­tected by hood and marginal lappets.

10. Gonads lie on the floor of gastric pouches internally and the gametes are endoder­mal.

11. The sub-genital pit is present.

12. The scyphistoma or polypoid stage is very much -reduced. It is solitary and a larval stage.

13. No such structure.

14. No true metagenesis but a case of meta­morphosis complicated by multiplication in the larval stage.

15. Fertilization internal, the union occurs inside the enteron of the female.

16. Cleavage holoblastic but unequal.

17. Planula possesses a blastopore and a co­elenteron.

18. The planula is transformed into a hydra tuba, which produces new hydra tuba by budding. The hydra tuba grows into a trumpet-like asexual poly­poid scyphistoma which by strobilation or metamorphosis produces the Aurelia medusa.

Answered by UsmanSant
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Obelia are commonly called swimming bell where as Aurelia are commonly called jelly fish.

In Obelia medusa phase is reduced where as in Aurelia medusa phase is dominant.

In Obelia gastric ridges and gastric filaments are absent where as in Aurelia gastrinc ridges bearing endodermal gastric filaments are present

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