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Obelia bidentata Clark 1875

Description

Obelia bidentata Clark, 1875

(fig. 5G)

Material examined. Stn. 8 – 23.02.2008, 26 m, A565: several stems, ca. 5 mm high, epizoic on Symplectoscyphus milneanus (d’Orbigny, 1846); A566: a small, sterile colony, epizoic on Synthecium robustum Nutting, 1904; A580 (MHNG INVE 62830): a few sterile stems, epizoic on S. milneanus. Type locality. Long Island, Atlantic coast of the United States of America.

Remarks. For a description of this well-known species, I refer to Cornelius (1995).

World distribution. Likely cosmopolitan. For a detailed list of world records, see Medel & Vervoort (2000). Peña Cantero (2008) gave its distribution in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters.

Records from Chile. Gente Grande and Paso Ancho, Strait of Magellan (Orejas, unpublished results, see Pagès & Orejas 1999), South of Chiloé Island (present study).

Other

Published as part of Galea, Horia R., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter, 2009, New additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the fjords region of southern Chile, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2019 on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.186052

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Campanulariidae
Genus
Obelia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Clark
Species
bidentata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Obelia bidentata Clark, 1875 sec. Galea, Häussermann & Försterra, 2009

References

  • Clark, S. F. (1875) Descriptions of new and rare species of hydroids from the New England coasts. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 3, 58 - 66.
  • Nutting, C. C. (1904) American hydroids. Part II. The Sertularidae. Special Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 4 (2), 1 - 325.
  • Cornelius, P. F. S. (1995) North-west European thecate hydroids and their medusae. Part 2. Sertulariidae to Campanulariidae. Synopses of the British fauna, 50, 1 - 386.
  • Medel, M. D. & Vervoort, W. (2000) Atlantic Haleciidae and Campanulariidae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) collected during the CANCAP and Mauritania-II expediations of the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 330, 1 - 68.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. (2008) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Spanish Antarctic expedition Bentart 95. Polar Biology, 31 (4), 451 - 464.
  • Pages, F. & Orajas C. (1999) Medusae, siphonophores, and ctenophores of the Magellan region. Scientia Marina, 63 (Supl. 1), 51 - 57.