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Lafoeina longitheca Jaderholm 1904

Description

Lafoeina longitheca Jäderholm, 1904

(fig. 8O, P, table 5)

Lafoeina longitheca Jäderholm, 1904b: 4; 1905: 20, figs 1–2, pl. 8; Billard, 1914: 12; Stepanjants, 1979: 41, pl. 7 fig. 9; Blanco et al., 2000a: 269, fig. 2; Peña Cantero et al., 2004: 2274, fig. 1A–B.

Material examined. Stn. CFA — 14.iii.2006, 10– 30 m, S88: a sterile colony, epizoic on Bougainvillia pyramidata (MHNG INVE 53322).

Type locality. Off South Georgia, West Antarctica.

Description. Colony minute, stolonal, with individual hydrothecae and nematothecae arising directly from a branching, anastomosing hydrorhiza, firmly attached to its substrate, a colony of Bougainvillia pyramidata. Hydrothecae long, tubular, slightly curving, generally with 2–3 widely-spaced renovations; basal part narrowing fairly suddenly and attached directly to stolon; hydrothecal pedicel absent; hydrothecal rim slightly everted. Closing apparatus composed of several triangular flaps, connected by a hyaline membrane and folding together to form a pointed roof; sometimes operculum inwardly closed; with fine crease-line between bases of opercular flaps and hydrothecal rim. Nematothecae long, narrow, distal part slightly swollen, with small, circular, apical aperture; provided with several large, banana-shaped nematocysts.

Remarks. Several authors reported a variable number of basal annulations of hydrothecae (Jäderholm 1904b, Stepanjants 1979, Blanco et al. 2000a). Peña Cantero et al. (2004) found only a few hydrothecae having a single annular constriction. In the present material, the majority of hydrothecae are smooth-walled, only a few of them being provided with 2–3 transverse constrictions of perisarc (fig. 8O). Renovations of hydrothecal margin were observed by Blanco et al. (2000a), but they were neither mentioned, nor figured, by Peña Cantero et al. (2004). Blanco et al. (2000a) reported hydranths with eight tentacles, while in the present material their number is ca 10. The gonothecae of this species still remain to be described.

World distribution. Lafoeina longitheca has a sub- and circumantarctic distribution, being recorded from off Kerguélen, East and West Antarctica, Pacific coasts of Argentina (Peña Cantero et al. 2004).

Records from Chile. The present material was found at only one station, Canal Fallos. This is the first record for Chile.

Notes

Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2007, Hydroids and hydromedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the fjords region of southern Chile, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 1597 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1650.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5097970

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Campanulinidae
Genus
Lafoeina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Jaderholm
Species
longitheca
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Lafoeina longitheca Jaderholm, 1904 sec. Galea, 2007

References

  • Jaderholm, E. (1904 b) Mitteilungen ueber einige von der Schwedischen Antarctic-Expedition 1901 - 1903 eingesammelte Hydroiden. Archives de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale, 4 (3), 1 - 14.
  • * Jaderholm, E. (1905) Hydroiden aus antarktischen und subantarktischen Meeren gesammelt von der schwedischen Sudpolar-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903, 5 (8), 1 - 41.
  • Billard, A. (1914) Hydroides. Deuxieme Expedition Antarctique Francaise (1908 - 1910), commandee par le Dr Jean Charcot. Masson, Paris, pp. 1 - 34.
  • Stepanjants, S. D. (1979) Gidroidy vod antarktiki i subantarktiki. In: Rezul'taty biologicheskikh issledovanii sovetskikh antarkticheskikh ekspeditsii, 6. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei, 22 (30), 1 - 99.
  • Blanco, O. M., Zamponi, M. O. & Genzano, G. N. (2000 a) Campanulinidae de la Argentina (Coelenterata, Hydrozoa, Hydroida). Revista del Museo de La Plata, 14 (163), 267 - 278.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L., Svoboda, A. & Vervoort, W. (2004) Antarctic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the families Campanulinidae, Lafoeidae and Campanulariidae from recent Antarctic expeditions with RV Polarstern, with the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History, 38, 2269 - 2303.