Summary: | Fig. 2. Monocoryne bracteata, living animals, except E-G. (A) Young male sporosacs, Kam05. (B) Mature male sporosacs, Kam06. (C-D) Mature female sporosacs, likely after partial spawning, Kam06. (E) Longitudinal section through mature male sporosac, Kam05. (F) Longitudinal section through female sporosac with two growing oocytes surrounded by nourishing cells which will later fuse with the oocyte; Kam05. (G) Transverse section near the base of a tentacles group, note linear arrangement and shared epidermal layer. Published as part of Peter Schuchert, Nadya Sanamyan & Karen Sanamyan, 2016, Observations on two large athecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Kamchatka Peninsula (NW Pacific), pp. 165-178 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (1) on page 168, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.46301
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