Sertularella maureenae Choong, Calder 2012
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Description
Sertularella maureenae Choong, Calder, & Brinckmann-Voss, 2012
Material. Holotype: CANADA: British Columbia. Nootka District, Bajo Point Locality, 49˚36’45”N, 126˚49’00”W, 26.vi.1934, stolonal colony on calcareous algae (Bossiella sp.), with gonothecae (ROMIZ B3868).
Paratypes: CANADA: British Columbia. Nootka District, Bajo Point Locality, 49˚36’45”N, 126˚49’00”W, 26.vi.1934, stolonal colony on calcareous algae (Bossiella sp.), with gonothecae (ROMIZ B3869); stolonal colony on calcareous algae (Bossiella sp.), with gonothecae (ROMIZ B3870); stolonal colony on calcareous algae (Bossiella sp.), with gonothecae (ROMIZ B3871); single polyp on pedicel, gonotheca attached (ROMIZ B3872). CANADA: British Columbia. Queen Charlotte Land District, Swan Hill Locality. 54˚07’00”N, 131˚36’00”W, 21.iv.1961, 16.5 meters, stolonal colony, growing on calcareous algae (Bossiella sp.), no gonothecae (ROMIZ B3876), coll. D.B. Quayle; 54˚07’N, 131˚36’W, 21.iv.1961, 16.5 meters, coll. D.B, Quayle; stolonal colony, growing on calcareous algae (Bossiella sp.), no gonothecae (RBCM 011-00161-001). Other material: CANADA: British Columbia. Nootka District, Bajo Point Locality, 49˚36’45”N, 126˚49’00”W, 26.vi.1934, stolonal colony on Bryozoa, no gonothecae, Orthopyxis everta (Clark, 1876) also present on Bryozoa (ROMIZ B3873). CANADA: British Columbia. Nootka District, Bajo Point Locality, 49˚36’45”N, 126˚49’00”W, 26.vi.1934, stolonal colony on calcareous algae (Bossiella sp.), no gonothecae, Orthopyxis everta (Clark, 1876) and Symplectoscyphus turgidus (Trask, 1857) also present (ROMIZ B3874). CANADA: British Columbia. Nootka District, Bajo Point Locality, 49˚36’45”N, 126˚49’00”W, 26.vi.1934, stolonal colony on Symplectoscyphus turgidus (Trask, 1857) gonotheca (ROMIZ B3875). CANADA: British Columbia. Nootka District, Bajo Point Locality, 49˚36’45”N, 126˚49’00”W, 26.vi.1934, stolonal colony on calcareous algae (Bossiella sp.), no gonothecae (ROMIZ B3878). CANADA: British Columbia. Queen Charlotte Land District. Masset Harbor, 14. ix.1935, stolonal colony on Symplectoscyphus tricuspidatus (Alder, 1856), without gonothecae, ROMIZ B3877. CANADA: British Columbia. Queen Charlotte Land District. Masset Harbor, 14. ix.1935, single polyp on pedicel, epizoic on Abietinaria filicula (Ellis & Solander, 1786), without gonothecae, ROMIZ B4049. CANADA: British Columbia. Queen Charlotte Land District. Masset Harbor, 14. ix.1935, stolonal colony, creeping on Symplectoscyphus tricuspidatus (Alder, 1856), without gonothecae, ROMIZ B4050. CANADA: British Columbia. Nootka Island. Bajo Point, 49˚36’45”N, 126˚49’00”W, 26. vi.1934, stolonal colony and short hydrocaulus, epizoic on hydroid (Aglaophenia sp), with gonotheca, CMNI 1982-1338 (as Sertularella rugosa). CANADA: British Columbia. Queen Charlotte Land District, Swan Hill Locality. 54˚07’00”N, 131˚36’00”W, 21.iv.1961, 16.5 meters, stolonal colony, growing on Abietinaria turgida (Clark, 1877), no gonothecae, coll. D.B. Quayle (ROMIZ B3879). CANADA: British Columbia. Louie Creek (west of Nuchatlitz Inlet), 26. vi.1961, stolonal colony and short hydrocaulus, growing on calcareous algae (Bossiella sp.), numerous gonothecae, coll. D.B. Quayle, CMNI 1982-1452.
Reported distribution. Canada: British Columbia. Masset Harbour, at the Dixon Entrance to Hecate Strait; Off Nootka Island (Choong et al. 2012).
Remarks. For description and figures of this species, see Choong et al. (2012). In addition to the existing holotype and paratypes in the original description, additional specimens identified are listed in the preceding “Material” section.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sertulariidae
- Genus
- Sertularella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Choong, Calder
- Species
- maureenae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sertularella maureenae Choong, 2012 sec. Choong, 2015
References
- Choong, H. H. C., Calder, D. R. & Brinckmann-Voss, A. (2012) Sertularella maureenae, a new species of hydroid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Sertulariidae) from the Pacific coast of Canada. Zootaxa, 3297, 57 - 63.
- Clark, S. F. (1876) The hydroids of the Pacific coast of the United States, south of Vancouver Island. With a report upon those in the museum of Yale College. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences of Philadelphia, 3, 249 - 264.
- Trask, J. B. (1857) On some new microscopic organisms. Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, 1, 110 - 114.
- Alder, J. (1856) A notice of some new genera and species of British hydroid zoophytes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 2, 18, 353 - 362.
- Ellis, J., & Solander, D. (1786) The Natural History of many curious and uncommon Zoophytes, collected from various parts of the Globe. Systematically arranged and described by the late Daniel Solander. Benjamin White & Son, London, 206 pp.
- Clark, S. F. (1877) Report on the hydroids collected on the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, by W. H. Dall, U. S. Coast Survey, and Party, from 1871 to 1874 inclusive. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1876 (28), 209 - 238.