Figure 2.
Live Alatina alata medusae and encysted planula larva. (a) A. alata medusa recorded at a depth of 500–540 m, west off Gorda Cay, Bahamas, from the Johnson Sea Link I manned submersible (frame grab from video voucher USNM 1195809); (b) A. alata medusa next to diver 10–20 cm below the surface off Kralendijk, Bonaire, the Netherlands (Photograph courtesy of Jennifer Collins); (c–e) series of digital frame grabs taken from video footage of A. alata planula emerging from a cyst (scale bar = 50 μm).