Aglaophenia latecarinata Allman 1877
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Aglaophenia latecarinata Allman, 1877
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Aglaophenia late-carinata Allman, 1877: 56 [incorrect original spelling].
Aglaophenia latecarinata.— Leloup, 1935: 57.— Fraser, 1944: 378.
Type locality. “ Gulf of Mexico...attached to Gulf Weed ” (Allman 1877: 56).
Voucher material. Off St. Lucie Inlet, 27°10.8’N, 80°02.5’W, 21.6 m, 24.vii.1975, on algae, one colony, cormoids up to 1.4 cm high, without gonophores, coll. T. Askew, ROMIZ B1086.— Fort Pierce, Fort Pierce Inlet State Park, 27°28’29.5”N, 80°17’25.8”W, on stranded Sargassum fluitans, 14.vii.2012, 28° C, 35‰, collected manually, two colonies, up to 7 mm high, without gonophores, coll. D.R. Calder, ROMIZ B3978.
Remarks. Although often reported from hard bottoms, Aglaophenia latecarinata Allman, 1877 is also a conspicuous epibiont of the pelagic gulfweed species Sargassum fluitans (Calder 1995). As such it is ubiquitous in the Caribbean Sea (e.g., Leloup 1935; Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen 1965), Gulf of Mexico (e.g., Fraser 1944; Defenbaugh & Hopkins 1973), Florida Current (e.g., Nutting 1895, as Aglaophenia minuta; Bogle 1975), Gulf Stream (e.g., Burkenroad, in Parr 1939, as A. minuta; Rackley 1974), and Sargasso Sea (e.g., Broch 1913; Leloup 1937). Colonies on gulfweed are stunted, as with certain other Sargassum associates (Adams 1960), and they typically reach only about a centimeter in height on that substrate. While the species tends to be a dominant hydroid on S. fluitans, it is much less frequent on S. natans, the other holopelagic species of gulfweed in the North Atlantic (Calder 1995). Hydroids of A. latecarinata are known to occur as well on flotsam such as plastics (Calder 1997).
The troubled nomenclature and extensive synonymy of this species have been reviewed elsewhere (Bogle 1975; Calder 1997; Ansín Agís et al. 2001). The last group of authors also provided detailed distribution records.
Reported distribution. Atlantic coast of Florida. Hollywood, near Miami (Leloup 1935; Fraser 1944).
Western Atlantic. New England, on pelagic Sargassum (Fraser 1944), to Brazil (Oliveira et al. submitted), and including Bermuda and the Sargasso Sea (Jäderholm 1896; Calder 1993), the Gulf of Mexico (Calder & Cairns 2009), and the Caribbean Sea (Galea 2010).
Elsewhere. Warm waters of the eastern Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and western Pacific (Ansín Agís et al. 2001; Park 2012).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ROMIZ
- Event date
- 1975-07-24 , 2012-07-14
- Family
- Aglaopheniidae
- Genus
- Aglaophenia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- B1086 , B3978
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Allman
- Species
- latecarinata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1975-07-24 , 2012-07-14
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aglaophenia latecarinata Allman, 1877 sec. Calder, 2013
References
- Allman, G. J. (1877) Report on the Hydroida collected during the exploration of the Gulf Stream by L. F. de Pourtales, assistant United States Coast Survey. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 5 (2), 1 - 66.
- Leloup, E. (1935) Hydraires calyptoblastiques des Indes Occidentales. Memoires du Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 2 me serie, 2, 1 - 73.
- Fraser, C. M. (1944) Hydroids of the Atlantic coast of North America. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 451 pp.
- Calder, D. R. (1995) Hydroid assemblages on holopelagic Sargassum from the Sargasso Sea at Bermuda. Bulletin of Marine Science, 56, 537 - 546.
- Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen, G. C. H. (1965) Hydroids of the Caribbean: Sertulariidae, Plumulariidae and Aglaopheniidae. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands: No. 84. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao, 22, 1 - 45.
- Defenbaugh, R. E. & Hopkins, S. H. (1973) The occurrence and distribution of the hydroids of the Galveston Bay, Texas, area. Texas A & M University, TAMU-SG- 73 - 210, 202 pp.
- Nutting, C. C. (1895) Narrative and preliminary report of Bahama Expedition. Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of Iowa, 3, 1 - 251.
- Bogle, M. A. (1975) A review and preliminary revision of the Aglaopheniinae (Hydroida: Plumulariidae) of the tropical western Atlantic. M. S. Thesis, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 1 - 307.
- Parr, A. E. (1939) Quantitative observations on the pelagic Sargassum vegetation of the western North Atlantic with preliminary discussion of morphology and relationships. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, 6 (7), 1 - 94.
- Rackley, D. H. (1974) Hydroids of the pelagic Sargassum community of the Gulf Stream and Sargasso Sea. M. A. Thesis, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 94 pp.
- Broch, H. (1913) Hydroida from the " Michael Sars " North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition 1910. Report on the Scientific Results of the " Michael Sars " North Atlantic Deep Sea Expedition 1910, Zoology, 3 (1), 1 - 18.
- Leloup, E. (1937) Resultats scientifiques des croisieres du navire-ecole belge " Mercator. " VI. Hydroidea, Siphonophora, Ceriantharia. I. - Hydropolypes. Memoires du Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 2 me serie, 9, 91 - 121.
- Adams, J. A. (1960) A contribution to the biology and postlarval development of the Sargassum fish, Histrio histrio (Linnaeus), with a discussion of the Sargassum complex. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 10, 55 - 82.
- Calder, D. R. (1997) Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda: superfamily Plumularioidea. Royal Ontario Museum, Life Sciences Contributions, 161, 1 - 85.
- Ansin Agis, J., Ramil, F. & Vervoort, W. (2001) Atlantic Leptolida (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) of the families Aglaopheniidae, Halopterididae, Kirchenpaueriidae and Plumulariidae collected during the CANCAP and Mauritania-II expeditions of the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, the Netherlands. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 333, 1 - 268.
- Jaderholm, E. (1896) Ueber aussereuropaische Hydroiden des zoologischen Museums der Universitat Upsala. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 21, Afd. 4 (6), 1 - 20.
- Calder, D. R. (1993) Local distribution and biogeography of the hydroids (Cnidaria) of Bermuda. Caribbean Journal of Science, 29, 61 - 74.
- Calder, D. R. & Cairns, S. D. (2009) Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, D. L. & Camp, D. K. (Eds.), Gulf of Mexico. Origin, waters, and biota. Vol. 1. Biodiversity. Texas A & M University Press, College Station, pp. 381 - 394.
- Galea, H. R. (2010) Additional shallow-water thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles. Zootaxa, 2570, 1 - 40.
- Park, J. H. (2012) New record of a aglaophenian species (Hydrozoa: Thecatae: Plumulariidae) from Korea. Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity, 28, 145 - 147. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5635 / ASED. 2012.28.2.145