Zygophylax africana Stechow 1923
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ZYGOPHYLAX AFRICANA STECHOW, 1923
(FIGS 5G, H, 6)
Zygophylax africana Stechow, 1923a: 106–107; 1925: 445–446, fig. 18; Millard, 1964: 15–18, fig. 4A–F; 1968: 263; 1973: 28, fig. 4B; 1975: 189–190, fig. 62A–E; 1977: 106; 1980: 131; Gravier-Bonnet, 1979: 29; Rees & Vervoort, 1987: 75; Bouillon et al., 2006: 341; Ruthensteiner et al., 2008: 25; Altuna, 2012: 5–8, figs 2, 3; Campos et al., 2020: 540–543, pl. 2A–G.
? Zygophylax africana: Hirohito, 1983: 22–24, fig. 6; 1995: 136–138, fig. 40a–e.
Zygophylax africanus: Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 69 [incorrect subsequent spelling]. hydrocladia (Fig. 6B, C), borne on short pedicels, tubular, distal part curved abaxially and forming angles of 15°–45° with the proximal part, diaphragm straight to oblique, margin slightly everted, with or without renovations (Fig. 6C). Nematothecae on hydrocladia, hydrocauli and apophyses of hydrocladia; tubular, with basal diaphragm (Fig. 6D).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Stechow
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Family
- Zygophylacidae
- Genus
- Zygophylax
- Species
- africana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zygophylax africana Stechow, 1923 sec. Gu, Ruthensteiner, Moura, Liu, Zhang & Song, 2022
References
- Stechow E. 1923 a. Uber Hydroiden der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition, nebst Bemerkungen uber einige andere Formen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 56: 97 - 119.
- Stechow E. 1925. Hydroiden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer ' Valdivia' 1898 - 1899 27: 383 - 546.
- Millard NAH. 1964. The Hydrozoa of the south and west coasts of South Africa. Part II. The Lafoeidae, Syntheciidae and Sertulariidae. Annals of the South African Museum 48: 1 - 56.
- Gravier-Bonnet N. 1979. Hydraires semi-profonds de Madagascar, (Coelenterata Hydrozoa), etude systematique et ecologique. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 169: 3 - 76.
- Rees WJ, Vervoort W. 1987. Hydroids from the John Murray Expedition to the Indian Ocean, with revisory notes on Hydrodendron, Abietinella, Cryptolaria and Zygophylax (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 237: 1 - 209.
- Bouillon J, Gravili C, Pages F, Gili JM, Boero F. 2006. An introduction to Hydrozoa. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 194: 1 - 591.
- Ruthensteiner B, Reinicke G, Straube N. 2008. The type material of Hydrozoa described by Eberhard Stechow in the Zoologische Staatssammlung Munchen. Spixiana 31: 3 - 27.
- Altuna A. 2012. New records of bathyal Leptolida (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Leptothecata) from the Bay of Biscay and the north-western Iberian Peninsula (northeastern Atlantic). Zootaxa 3565: 1 - 17.
- Campos FF, Perez CD, Puce S, Marques AC. 2020. A new species of Zygophylax (Quelch, 1885) (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from South Africa, with taxonomic notes on the southern African species of the genus. Zootaxa 4779: 535 - 552.
- Hirohito. 1983. Hydroids from Izu Oshima and Niijima. Publications of the Biological Laboratory, Imperial Household, Tokyo 6: 1 - 83.
- Vervoort W, Watson JE. 2003. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Leptothecata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) (thecate hydroids). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 119: 1 - 538.