... four oral lobes and eight trailing arms at the centre of their bell, giving them a body morphology quite unlike that of other free-swimming medusae. The implications of this body morphology on the mechanisms by which thrust is produced are unknown. Here, we determined the wake structure and propulsive...

... Cnidaria medusa nervous system FMRFamide hydromedusa nerve ring Most neuroethological studies on hydromedusae, including our own previous papers in this series (Mackie and Meech, 1995a , 1995b , 2000 ), deal with aspects of swimming behaviour. Relatively little attention has been paid...