Australian Museum Journal Studies in Australian athecate hydroids. No. III. The histology of Myriothela harrisoni, Briggs
- Shortform:
- Briggs, 1930, Rec. Aust. Mus. 18(1): 5–14
- Author(s):
- Briggs, E. A.
- Year published:
- 1930
- Title:
- Studies in Australian athecate hydroids. No. III. The histology of Myriothela harrisoni, Briggs
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 5
- End page:
- 14
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.18.1930.714
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates i–iii
- Date published:
- 10 November 1930
- Cover date:
- 10 November 1930
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 05 February 2009
- Available online:
- 05 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 714
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (94kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (2782kb PDF)
Abstract
In Part I of this series of "Studies in Australian Athecate Hydroids," I described and figured the external characters of a new species of Myriothela, M. harrisoni, from the South Coast of New South Wales. The specimens, which were collected on the undersides of rocks below low-water mark at Bulli, were fixed in sublimate-acetic-alcohol and transferred to 70% alcohol. Serial sections of the hydranths with their attached blastostyles and gonophores were cut in a transverse direction, and afterwards stained with Ehrlich's haematoxylin followed by eosin. Grubler's picro-carmine proved a very useful stain for the differentiation of the fibrillar structure of the supporting lamella in the capitulum of the tentacles. For the study of the nematocysts, some of the sections were stained in methylene blue and orange G. The sections were cut in thicknesses varying from 6 to 8 microns.