Salacia macer Vervoort 2003
Creators
Description
Salacia macer Vervoort & Watson, 2003
Fig. 7 B–G
Salacia macer Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 154, figs 34g, 35a.
Material examinedBATHUS 3: Stn. DW809, single sterile stem, 2.4 cm high, partly damaged (several cladia missing) (MNHN-IK-2012-16551).
NORFOLK 1: Stn. DW1659, four stems 3–4.5 cm high, two of which bear female gonothecae (MNHN- IK-2012-16552).
RemarksThe slender habit of these colonies, their regularly-pinnate branching pattern and their division into internodes, each of which bears a single pair of strictly opposite hydrothecae, are diagnostic (Vervoort & Watson 2003). The gonothecae, not previously described, are present in this material, and are female. They are borne on either the stem or cladia, and are arranged perpendicularly from below one hydrotheca of a pair. Urn-shaped, smooth-walled, 3280–3565 µm long and 1110–1170 µm wide, tapering basally into a short pedicel; distally truncate, aperture circular, 590–615 µm wide, borne on a short, 565–575 µm wide neck region. Possibly up to 100 oocytes per gonotheca, though their number is difficult to ascertain.
Geographical distributionNorfolk Ridge (Vervoort & Watson 2003; present study).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sertulariidae
- Genus
- Salacia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Vervoort
- Species
- macer
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Salacia macer Vervoort, 2003 sec. Galea, 2016
References
- 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.