hydra-tuba

hydra-tuba
n. [Gr. hydor, water; tuba, horn]
(CNIDARIA: Scyphozoa)
A simple polyp-like stage that may produce a few more polyps, but all bud off larvae known as ephyrae, which bud like a hydra; see scyphistoma.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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