Beschreibung:
Demarcation of the Hydrozoa from the Anthozoa, Scyphozoa and Cubozoa. Morphology of the hydroid polyps, vegetative reproduction, division of labor (tentacular, defense, nutritive and reproductive polyps), medusa formation (metagenesis), sexual reproduction, reduction of the medusa generation. Species shown: Leuckartiara, Gonothyrea, Clava, Coryne, Cladonema, Eirene, Hydra, Gonionemus, Thecocodium, Aglaophenia, Hydractinia, Rathkea. With time-lapse cinematography