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It is not known whether the name Nereus was known to Homer or not, but the name of the Nereids is attested before it, and can be found in the Iliad. [3] Since Nereus only has relevance as the father of the Nereids, it has been suggested that his name could actually be derived from that of his daughters; [4] while the derivation of the Nereids from Nereus, as a patronymic, has also been ...
Nereid, or Neptune II, is the third-largest moon of Neptune. It has the most eccentric orbit of all known moons in the Solar System . [ 4 ] It was the second moon of Neptune to be discovered, by Gerard Kuiper in 1949.
The prostomium of Nereididae bears a pair of palps that are differentiated into two units. The proximal unit is much larger than the distal unit. Parapodia are mostly biramous (only the first two pairs are uniramous).
Nereid (worm), a polychaete worm; Nereids (organization), a fictional organization in the anime series Daphne in the Brilliant Blue; The Nereids, a lost tragedy by the Greek playwright Aeschylus assigned by modern scholars to the trilogy the Achilleis; Nereid Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line), a station of the New York City Subway
Psamathe, detail of a vase depicting the struggle between Peleus and Thetis.Psamathe is among the Nereids fleeing from the couple. [1]In Greek mythology, Psamathe (Ancient Greek: Ψαμάθη) is a Nereid, one of the fifty daughters of the sea god Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.
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Nereis are osmoconformers.They are dioecious (individuals are male or female) and they release their haploid gametes into the water, a process called spawning.Moreover, upon fertilization and mitotic divisions of the zygote, Nereids form a larval stage which is similar to that of molluscs – i.e. a trochophore larva.
When Hephaestus was thrown from Olympus, whether cast out by Hera for his lameness or evicted by Zeus for taking Hera's side, the Oceanid Eurynome and the Nereid Thetis caught him and allowed him to stay on the volcanic isle of Lemnos, while he labored for them as a smith, "working there in the hollow of the cave, and the stream of Okeanos ...