Clytia paulensis
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Description
Clytia paulensis (Vanhöffen, 1910)
Fig. 16c, d
Campanularia paulensis Vanhöffen, 1910: 298, fig. 19a, b.
Type locality. Île Saint-Paul, crater basin, shallow water (Vanhöffen 1910).
Voucher material. Off St. Lucie Inlet, 27°10.8’N, 80°00.8’W, 44 m, 03.ii.1977, Johnson-Sea-Link, diver lockout, JSL 2161, two colonies, up to 2 mm high, without gonophores, coll. F. Stanton, ROMIZ B1103.
Remarks. Although Clytia paulensis (Vanhöffen, 1910) is distinctive, presumably widespread, and now quite frequently reported (see synonymy list in Medel & Vervoort 2000), it was not described until the early twentieth century. Also surprising given its ubiquity is its remote type locality, a small volcanic island in the southern Indian Ocean. Fraser (1937a, 1944, 1946, 1948) did not mention it from the Americas, although Clytia longitheca (Fraser 1914) from the west coast is considered a synonym (Schuchert 2012). It has now been reported from both Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the American continents (Cairns et al. 2002; Oliveira et al. submitted).
Recent taxonomic accounts of C. paulensis include those of Medel & Vervoort (2000) and Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa (2002); the latter authors add notes on ecology of the species.
Reported distribution. Atlantic coast of Florida. First record.
Western Atlantic. Chesapeake Bay (Calder 1971) to Brazil (Oliveira et al. submitted), and from Challenger Bank near Bermuda (Calder 2000), the Gulf of Mexico (Calder & Cairns 2009), and the Caribbean Sea (Calder & Kirkendale 2005).
Elsewhere. Considered to be almost circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters (Cornelius 1995b; Ramil et al. 1998; Medel & Vervoort 2000; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ROMIZ
- Event date
- 1977-02-03
- Family
- Campanulariidae
- Genus
- Clytia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- B1103
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Vanhoffen
- Species
- paulensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1977-02-03
- Taxonomic concept label
- Clytia paulensis (Vanhoffen, 1910) sec. Calder, 2013
References
- Vanhoffen, E. (1910) Die Hydroiden der Deutschen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903. Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903, 11, Zoologie 3, 269 - 340.
- 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 Netherlands. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 330, 1 - 68.
- Fraser, C. M. (1937 a) Hydroids of the Pacific coast of Canada and the United States. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 207 pp. [Note: a copy in the Gerstein Science Library at the University of Toronto is hand-dated in ink " 14. 9. 37 ".]
- Fraser, C. M. (1944) Hydroids of the Atlantic coast of North America. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 451 pp.
- Fraser, C. M. (1946) Distribution and relationship in American hydroids. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 464 pp.
- Fraser, C. M. (1948) Hydroids of the Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions since March, 1938. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 4 (5), 179 - 335.
- Fraser, C. M. (1914) Some hydroids of the Vancouver Island region. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, section 4, series 3, 8, 99 - 216.
- Cairns, S. D., Calder, D. R., Brinckmann-Voss, A., Castro, C. B., Fautin, D. G., Pugh, P. R., Mills, C. E., Jaap, W. C., Arai, M. N., Haddock, S. H. D. & Opresko, D. M. (2002) Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora. Second Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 28, 115 pp.
- Pena Cantero, A. L. & Garcia Carrascosa, A. M. (2002) The benthic hydroid fauna of the Chafarinas Islands (Alboran Sea, western Mediterranean). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 337, 1 - 180.
- Calder, D. R. (1971) Hydroids and hydromedusae of southern Chesapeake Bay. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Special Papers in Marine Science, 1, 1 - 125.
- Calder, D. R. (2000) Assemblages of hydroids (Cnidaria) from three seamounts near Bermuda in the western North Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I, 47, 1125 - 1139. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0967 - 0637 (99) 00093 - X
- 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.
- Calder, D. R. & Kirkendale, L. (2005) Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from shallow-water environments along the Caribbean Coast of Panama. Caribbean Journal of Science, 41, 476 - 491.
- Cornelius, P. F. S. (1995 b) North-west European thecate hydroids and their medusae. Part 2. Sertulariidae to Campanulariidae. Synopses of the British Fauna, new series, 50, 386 pp.
- Ramil, F., Ansin Agis, J. & Fernandez Pulpeiro, E. (1998) Soft-bottom hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) collected in the Ria de Vigo (NW Spain). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 323, 181 - 208.