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Clytia gracilis M. Sars 1850

Description

Clytia gracilis (M. Sars, 1850)

(fig. 5 E)

Laomedea gracilis M. Sars, 1850: 138.

Clytia gracilis – Calder, 1991: 54, fig. 31. – Cornelius, 1995b: 246, fig. 56.

Material examined. Stn. T10, 15.ii.2005: a few sterile stems, epizoic on Halecium cf. beanii (Johnston, 1838). Stn. T17, 06.iii.2005: a sterile colony on unidentified substrate. Stn. T18, 06.iii.2005: a few sterile stems, epizoic on Halecium ? delicatulum (Coughtrey, 1876) morphotype 2.

Distribution. Circumglobal, reaching sub-Arctic and sub-Antarctic waters (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002). This is the first record of this species for Tristan da Cunha.

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 page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.205235

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Campanulariidae
Genus
Clytia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
M. Sars
Species
gracilis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Clytia gracilis Sars, 1850 sec. Galea, 2010