Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Water Flow in the Ecology of Benthic Cnidaria....Pages 3-3
The Nature of Flow and the Reaction of Benthic Cnidaria to It....Pages 5-21
Mechanical Design in Sea Anemones....Pages 23-31
Hydroid Skeletons and Fluid Flow....Pages 33-40
The Orientation of Aglaophenia Fans to Current in Laboratory Conditions (Hydrozoa, Coelenterata)....Pages 41-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Competitive Interactions and the Species Diversity of Corals....Pages 51-58
Habitat-Related Patterns of Productivity of the Foliaceous Reef Coral, Pavona Praetorta Dana....Pages 59-66
The Ecology of Caribbean Sea Anemones in Panama: Utilization of Space on a Coral Reef....Pages 67-77
Growth Interactions Among Morphological Variants Of The Coral Acropora Palifera ....Pages 79-88
Settlement, Mortality and Recruitment of a Red Sea Scleractinian Coral Population....Pages 89-100
Intraspecific Variability of Zooplankton Feeding in the Hermatypic Coral Montastrea Cavernosa ....Pages 101-109
Accumulation of Dissolved Carbon by the Solitary Coral Balanophyllia Elegans — an Alternative Nutritional Pathway?....Pages 111-116
Regulation of Feequency of Pedal Laceration in a Sea Anemone....Pages 117-125
The Acrorhagial Response in Anthopleura Krebs I: Intraspecific and Interspecific Recognition....Pages 127-136
Ecological Physiology and Genetics of the Colonizing Actinian Haliplanella Luciae ....Pages 137-146
Nutrition Experimentale chez les Cerianthaires....Pages 147-153
Fouling Community Structure: Effects of the Hydroid, Obelia Dichotoma , on Larval Recruitment....Pages 155-164
The Zonation of Hydroids Along Salinity Gradients in South Carolina Estuaries....Pages 165-174
Responses of Hydra Oligactis to Temperature and Feeding Rate....Pages 175-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
A Large-Scale Experiment on the Growth and Predation Potential of Ctenophore Populations....Pages 187-199
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Nutritional Ecology of Agalma Okeni (Siphonophora: Physonectae)....Pages 201-210
Behaviour of Planktonic Coelenterates in Temperature and Salinity Discontinuity Layers....Pages 211-218
 Craspedacusta Sowerbii : An Analysis of an Introduced Species....Pages 219-226
Life History of Carybdea Alata Reynaud, 1830 (Cubomedusae)....Pages 227-236
Cubomedusae: Feeding — Functional Morphology, Behavior and Phylogenetic Position....Pages 237-245
An Edwardsiid Larva Parasitic in Mnemiopsis ....Pages 247-250
Towards a Theory of Speciation in Beroe....Pages 251-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Sea Anemone Reproduction: Patterns and Adaptive Radiations....Pages 261-270
Reproduction of Some Common Hawaiian Reef Corals....Pages 271-279
Reproduction, Growth, and Some Tolerances of Zoanthus Pacificus and Palythoa Vestitus in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii....Pages 281-288
Characteristics of Asexual Reproduction in the Sea Anemone, Haliplanella Luciae (Verrill), Reared in the Laboratory....Pages 289-298
Some Observations on Sexual Reproduction in Tubularia ....Pages 299-308
The Structure and Function of Centriolar Satellites and Pericentriolar Processes in Cnidarian Sperm....Pages 309-317
Early Development and Planula Movement in Haliclystus (Scyphozoa: Stauromedusae)....Pages 319-329
Larval Dispersal in the Subtidal Hydrocoral Allopora Californica Verrill (1866)....Pages 331-337
Larval Adhesion, Releasing Stimuli and Metamorphosis....Pages 339-346
Some Microenvironmental Influences on Attachment Behavior of The Planula of Cyanea Capillata (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa)....Pages 347-354
A New Type of Larval Development in the Actiniaria: Giant Larvae. Morphological and Ecological Aspects of Larval Development in Actinostola Spetsbergensis....Pages 355-364
Stolon vs. Hydranth Determination in Pennaria Tiarella Planulae: A Role for DNA Synthesis....Pages 365-375
SEM Studies of Strobilating Aurelia ....Pages 377-386
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
The Quantitative Analysis of the Hydra-Hydramoeba Host-Parasite System....Pages 389-400
Aspects of Light in the Biology of Green Hydra....Pages 401-407
Survival During Starvation of Symbiotic, Aposymbiotic, and Non-Symbiotic Hydra....Pages 409-414
Sulfate Utilization in Green Hydra....Pages 415-422
Specificity of Symbioses Between Marine Cnidarians and Zooxanthellae....Pages 423-432
Macromolecular Mimicry: Substances Released by Sea Anemones and Their Role in the Protection of Anemone Fishes....Pages 433-441
Aposematic Coloration and Mutualism in Sponge-Dwelling Tropical Zoanthids....Pages 443-452
Skeletal Modification by a Polychaete Annelid in Some Scleractinian Corals....Pages 453-465
The Association of Hydractiniid Hydroids and Hermit Crabs, with New Observations from North Florida....Pages 467-476
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Locomotion in Sea Anemones: The Pedal Disk....Pages 479-490
Reflections on Transparency....Pages 491-499
A Qualitative and Quantitative Inventory of Nervous Cells in Hydra Attenuata Pall....Pages 501-512
Evidence for Neural Control of Muscles in Ctenophores....Pages 513-522
The Organization of the Neuro-Muscular System of the Diadumene Acontium....Pages 523-531
Ultrastructure and Attachment of the Basal Disk of Haliclystus ....Pages 533-540
The Ultrastructure of the Muscle System of Stomphia coccinea ....Pages 541-547
Increase in Nematocyst and Spirocyst Discharge in a Sea Anemone in Response to Mechanical Stimulation....Pages 549-558
A Comparison of Putative Sensory Receptors Associated with Nematocysts in an Anthozoan and a Scyphozoan....Pages 559-568
Front Matter....Pages 569-569
A View of the Evolution of Chemoreceptors Based on Research with Cnidarians....Pages 571-579
Chemoreception and Conduction Systems in Sea Anemones....Pages 581-590
Front Matter....Pages 569-569
Interactions Between Conducting Systems in the Sea Anemone Calliactis Parasitica ....Pages 591-598
Slow Conduction in Solitary and Colonial Anthozoa....Pages 599-607
An Electrophysiological Analysis of Behavioural Integration in Colonial Anthozoans....Pages 609-618
Morphology and Electrophysiology of the Through-Conducting Systems in Pennatulid Coelenterates....Pages 619-627
Probable Functions of Bioluminescence in the Pennatulacea (Cnidaria, Anthozoa)....Pages 629-638
Strategies for the Study of the Coelenterate Brain....Pages 639-645
The Control of Fast and Slow Muscle Contractions in the Siphonophore Stem....Pages 647-659
The Effect of Electrical Stimulation and Some Drugs on Conducting Systems of the Hydrocoral Millepora Complanata....Pages 661-670
The Reactions of Hydra Attenuata Pall. to Various Photic Stimuli....Pages 671-683
Analysis of Hydra Contraction Behaviour....Pages 685-694
The Ultrastructural Basis for the Electrical Coordination Between Epithelia of Hydra ....Pages 695-704
Coordination of Juxtaposed Muscle Layers as Seen in Hydra ....Pages 705-714
Ionic Requirements of Transepithelial Potentials in Isolated Cell Layers of Hydra....Pages 715-727
Electrophysiological Correlates of Feeding Behavior in Tubularia ....Pages 729-738
Back Matter....Pages 739-744