What's the difference between nectophore and siphonophore?

Nectophore


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Slow swimming in Aglantha apparently involves a second nerve supply to the same muscle sheets used in rapid swimming, whereas in Chelophyes slow swimming results from the activity of the smaller posterior nectophore.

Siphonophore


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the Siphonophora.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Slow swimming in siphonophores is more economical than the rapid responses.
  • (2) Sarsia, Euphysa, and other hydromedusae have been studied by electrophysiological techniques and are found to have nonnervous conducting epithelia resembling those described earlier for siphonophores.
  • (3) The trachyline medusa Aglantha and the small siphonophore Chelophyes also show rapid escape responses; in Aglantha these are driven by a specialized giant axon system lacking in other hydromedusae, and in Chelophyes.

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