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Journal of Wilderness Medicine 1, 135-138 (1990)
Correspondence
To the Editors:
Recently, an International Consortium for Jellyfish Stings was formed with its head•
quarters at our institution. Your readers might be interested in a meeting summary and
additional notes about clinically important developments in the field.
Digest of selected papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Coelent•
erate Biology held at the University of Southampton:
The fact that nematocyst discharge in Hydra is independent of nerve cells was
reported by Aerne and colleagues from Zurich.
Bob Endean from Australia reported that the discharge of nematocysts from Chironex
fleckeri was probably produced by a change in the sol-gel-crystal configuration of the
matrix within the nematocysts of the box-jellyfish.
Drs Avian, Del Negro and Rottini-Sandrini of Trieste showed an analysis of
nematocysts of Pelagia noctiluca and Rhizostoma pulmo from the Adriatic and found
that there was a greater variety of cnidocysts than had been described in previous studies.
These authors recommended a review of the nematocysts in all scyphomedusae.
Dr . Brewer reported that two contiguous populations of Cyanea capillata were
found in the Connecticut Niantic river estuary. This work was reported in this year's
Biological Bulletin (176:272, June 1989) and shows