Clytia gracilis M. Sars 1850
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Clytia gracilis (M. Sars, 1850)
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Laomedea gracilis M. Sars, 1850: 138.
Clytia gracilis — Calder, 1991d: 54, fig. 31.— Ramil & Vervoort, 1992: 235, fig. 67A.— Cornelius, 1995b: 246, fig. 56.— Migotto, 1996: 81, fig. 15C.— Schuchert, 2001a: 151, fig. 131.— Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 2002: 145, fig. 28A–B.— Schuchert, 2003: 164, fig. 23.
Material examined. Stn. 1: 21.03.2008 —one small, sterile colony, ca. 2 mm high, on Thalassia testudinum. Stn. 3: 26.01.2008 —several hydrothecae, but no gonothecae, on algae; 01.04.2008 —numerous sterile colonies, up to 2.5 mm high, on algae and concretions. Stn. 6: 28.03.2008 —one sterile colony, on T. testudinum. Stn. 7: 25.03.2008 —several colonies, up to 1.5 mm high, some fertile, on Halimeda sp.; 27.03.2008 —numerous colonies, 1 mm high, some fertile, on Halimeda sp.
Type locality. Lofoten Islands, Norway.
Remarks. For a description of this species, see Cornelius (1995b). Its synonymy is extensively discussed in Calder (1991d).
Distribution. Circumglobal, penetrating in subpolar seas (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 2002). For a detailed list of world records, see Medel & Vervoort (2000). The Caribbean records are summarized by Calder & Kirkendale (2005).
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Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2008, On a collection of shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 1878 on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184149Files
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Campanulariidae
- Genus
- Clytia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- M. Sars
- Species
- gracilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Clytia gracilis Sars, 1850 sec. Galea, 2008
References
- Sars, M. (1850) Beretning om en i Sommeren 1849 foretagen zoologisk Reise i Lofoten og Finmarken. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne, 6, 121 - 221.
- Calder, D. R. (1991 d) Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda: the Thecatae exclusive of Plumularioidea. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions, 154, 1 - 140.
- Ramil, F. & Vervoort, W. (1992) Report on the Hydroida collected by the " BALGIM " expedition in and around the Strait of Gibraltar. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 277, 1 - 262.
- Cornelius, P. F. S. (1995 b) North-west European thecate hydroids and their medusae. Part 2. Sertulariidae to Campanulariidae. Synopses of the British fauna, 50, 1 - 386.
- Migotto, A. E. (1996) Benthic shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the coast of Sao Sebastiao, Brazil, including a checklist of Brazilian hydroids. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 306, 1 - 125.
- Schuchert, P. (2001 a) Hydroids of Greenland and Iceland. Meddelelser om Gronland, Bioscience, 53, 1 - 184.
- Pena Cantero, A. L. & Garcia Carrascosa, A. M. (2002) The benthic hydroid fauna of the Chafarinas islands (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 337, 1 - 180.
- Schuchert, P. (2003) Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the Danish expedition to the Kei Islands. Steenstrupia, 27 (2), 137 - 256.
- Medel, M. D. & Vervoort, W. (2000) Atlantic Haleciidae and Campanulariidae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) collected during the CANCAP and Mauritania-II expeditions of the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Nederlands. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 330, 1 - 68.
- Calder, D. R. & Kirkendale, L. (2005) Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from shallow-water environments along the Caribbean coast of Panama. Caribbean Journal of Science, 41 (3): 476 - 491.