acaleph

Historical Examples of acaleph

• And throughout considerable portions of their bodies, some of the Acaleph exhibit more or less distinctly this type of structure.

  Illustrations of Universal Progress

  Herbert Spencer

• The medus are often termed the Acaleph—a word which signifies nettles, and they are popularly known as sea nettles.

  The Sea Shore

  William S. Furneaux

• Perhaps they too act like the venomous matter produced in the thread-capsules of the Acaleph.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index

  Ernst Haeckel

• The color of this pretty Acaleph varies from a greenish hue to green, with a faint tinge of red, or to a reddish brown.

  Seaside Studies in Natural History

  Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz

• It exists occasionally in considerable numbers on the internal surface of some Acaleph of the ocean and of the Mediterranean.

  Animal Parasites and Messmates

  P. J. Van Beneden