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Silicularia rosea Meyen 1834

Description

Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834

(fig. 5 D)

Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834: 204, pl. 35 figs 1 –11. – Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 442, fig. 108A–D.

Material examined. Stn. T14, 23.ii.2005: dense colonies, up to 5 mm high, bearing both male and female gonothecae, on Macrocystis pyrifera. Stn. T21, 31.x.2007: two fertile colonies (male and female), ca. 5 mm high, on Macrocystis pyrifera (NHM 2009.26).

Distribution. Previously recorded creeping on fronds of Macrocystis pyrifera from both Gough [Ritchie 1907, as S. hemisphaerica (Allman, 1888)] and Nightingale islands (Vanhöffen 1910, as S. rosea). This species has a circumglobal distribution in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters (Vervoort & Watson 2003).

Other

Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2010, Notes on a small collection of thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Tristan da Cunha, south Atlantic, pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 2336 on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.205235

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Campanulariidae
Genus
Silicularia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Meyen
Species
rosea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834 sec. Galea, 2010