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Sertularella areyi Nutting 1904

Description

Sertularella areyi Nutting, 1904

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Sertularella areyi Nutting, 1904: 83, pl. 17, fig. 6.

Sertularella areyi – Vervoort & Watson 2003: 156, fig. 35f–l.

Material examined

MUSORSTOM 4: Stn. CC 174, several stems, up to 1.4 cm high, all but one sterile (MNHN- IK-2012-16555).

BATHUS 3: Stn. CP813, fertile colonies with stems up to 1.4 cm high on two fragments of gorgonian (MNHN-IK-2012-16556); Stn. CP814, two infertile colonies with stems up to 1.5 cm high, one on dead gorgonian, the other on sponge (MNHN-IK-2012-16557).

LITHIST: Stn. DW13, small colony composed of a few sterile stems, up to 1.2 cm high, growing on Acryptolaria sp. (MNHN-IK-2012-16558).

BORDAU 2: Stn. DW1513, small colony composed of several sterile, up to 5 mm high, stems growing on G. ceramensis (MNHN-IK-2012-16559).

NORFOLK 1: Stn. DW1704, small colony composed of a restricted number of stems, some fertile and up to 1 cm high, epizoic on Zygophylax sp., Sertularella helenae Vervoort, 1993, and tube of coronate medusa (MNHN-IK-2012-16560).

Remarks

This very distinctive species needs no additional comments on morphology. Its synonymy, as well as a redescription, are provided by Vervoort & Watson (2003).

Geographical distribution

Tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific (Vervoort & Watson 2003).

Notes

Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2016, Notes on some sertulariid hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the tropical western Pacific, with descriptions of nine new species, pp. 1-52 in European Journal of Taxonomy 218 on page 24, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.218, http://zenodo.org/record/3840195

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sertulariidae
Genus
Sertularella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Nutting
Species
areyi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sertularella areyi Nutting, 1904 sec. Galea, 2016

References

  • Nutting C. C. 1904. American hydroids. Part II. The Sertularidae. Special Bulletin of the United States National Museum 4 (2): 1 - 325. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 1050964 [accessed 6 Jul. 2016]
  • Vervoort W. & Watson J. E. 2003. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Leptothecata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) (thecate hydroids). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 119: 1 - 538.
  • Watson J. E. 2003. Deep-water hydroids (Hydrozoa: Leptolida) from Macquarie Island. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 60 (2): 151 - 180.
  • Vervoort W. 1993. Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Hydroida: Hydroids from the western Pacific (Philippines, Indonesia and New Caledonia) I. Sertulariidae (Part 1). In: Crosnier A. (ed.) Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 11. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle 158: 89 - 298, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.