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Solmundella bitentaculata

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Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

(pl. 2O)

Solmundella bitentaculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1833: 295, figs 4–5; Kramp, 1952: 10; 1959: 63, fig. 297; 1961: 270; 1968: 124, fig. 338; Naumov, 1969: 616, fig. 463; Fagetti, 1973: 46, pl. 6 fig. E; Goy et al., 1991: 120, fig. 50; Pagès et al., 1992: 38, fig. 43; Bouillon et al., 2004: 223: figs 144B, 148F; Buecher et al., 2005: 30; Palma et al., 2007: 70.

Material examined. Plankton — off the Huinay Scientific Field Station, 12–13.i.2006 and 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 13, 18, 19.ii.2006, 50–0 m, several medusae (MHNG INVE 49036).

Type locality. Likely unknown.

Remarks. For a recent redescription of this species, see Buecher et al. (2005). The medusae in the present material have a bell diameter of up to 4.7 mm.

World distribution. This species has a cosmopolitan distribution (Pagès et al. 1992).

Records from Chile. Medusae in the present material were abundantly found in fjord Comau. This species was reported from the entire Chilean coast (Fagetti 1973), including the southern channels (Palma et al. 2007).

Notes

Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2007, Hydroids and hydromedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the fjords region of southern Chile, pp. 1-116 in Zootaxa 1597 (1) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1650.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5097970

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MHNG
Material sample ID
INVE 49036
Event date
2006-01-12
Verbatim event date
2006-01-12/02-19
Scientific name authorship
Quoy & Gaimard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Narcomedusae
Family
Aeginidae
Genus
Solmundella
Species
bitentaculata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Solmundella bitentaculata (Quoy, 1833) sec. Galea, 2007

References

  • * Quoy, J. C. R. & Gaimard, J. P. (1833) Voyage de decouvertes de l'Astrolabe pendant les annees 1826 - 29 sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie, 4, 1 - 390.
  • Kramp, P. L. (1952) Medusae collected by the Lund University Chile Expedition 1948 - 49. Reports of the Lund University Chile Expedition 1948 - 49. Acta Universitatis Lundensis, N. F., Avd. 2, 47 (7), 1 - 19.
  • Kramp, P. L. (1959) The hydromedusae of the Atlantic ocean and adjacent waters. Dana Report, 46, 1 - 283.
  • Naumov, D. V. (1969) Hydroids and hydromedusae of the USSR. Translated from Russian. Israel Program for Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, pp. 1 - 631.
  • Fagetti, E. G. (1973) Medusas de aguas chilenas. Revista de Biologia Marina Valparaiso, 15 (1), 31 - 75.
  • Goy, J., Lakkis, S. & Zeidane, R. (1991) Les meduses (Cnidaria) des eaux libanaises. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique de Paris, 67 (2), 99 - 128.
  • Pages, F., Gili, J. M. & Bouillon, J. (1992) Planktonic cnidarians of the Benguela current. Scientia Marina, 56 (1), 65 - 112.
  • Bouillon, J., Medel, M. D., Pages, F., Gili, J. M., Boero, F. & Gravili, C. (2004) Fauna of the Mediterranean Hydrozoa. Scientia Marina, 68 (Suppl. 2), 1 - 438.
  • Buecher, E., Goy, J. & Gibbons, M. J. (2005) Hydromedusae of the Agulhas Current. African Invertebrates, 46, 27 - 69.
  • Palma, S., Apablaza, P. & Silva, N. (2007) Hydromedusae (Cnidaria) of the Chilean southern channels (from the Corco- vado Gulf to the Pulluche-Chacabuco Channels). Scientia Marina, 71 (1), 65 - 74.