Bougainvillia
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Bougainvillia sp.
(fig. 2A–B)
Material examined. Stn. 3: 01.04.2008 —two 4 mm high monosiphonic, sterile stems, on concretions.
Description. Colonies small, ca. 4 mm high, with erect, monosiphonic, irregularly branched cauli. Perisarc covered with detritus, slightly corrugated at bases of branches, elsewhere smooth; pseudohydrotheca present, evenly covered with detritus. Branches short, each with a terminal hydranth; the latter with roundedconical hypostome encircled by single whorl of 11–13 filiform tentacles. Gonophores absent. Nematocysts (undischarged): microbasic euryteles (5.8–6.1) × (2.4–2.7) µm; desmonemes (3.8–4.1) × (2.4–2.7) µm.
Remarks. The present material belongs, without any doubt, to Bougainvillia Lesson, 1830. However, the lack of gonophores makes it unidentifiable to species level. Several members of the genus have been reported from the Caribbean (see Vervoort 1968). Additionally, Calder (1988b) recorded B. muscus (Allman, 1863) from Bermuda.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Anthoathecata
- Family
- Bougainvilliidae
- Genus
- Bougainvillia
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Lesson, R. P. (1830) Voyage autour du monde, pendant les annees 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 155 pp.
- Vervoort, W. (1968) Report on a collection of Hydroida from the Caribbean region, including an annotated checklist of Caribbean hydroids. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 92, 1 - 124.
- Calder, D. R. (1988 b) Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda: the Athecatae. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions, 148, 1 - 107.
- Allman, G. J. (1863) Notes on the Hydroida. I. On the structure of Corymorpha nutans. II. Diagnoses of new species of Tubularidae obtained, during the autumn of 1862, on the coasts of Shetland and Devonshire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (3) 11 (61), 1 - 12.