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<mods:titleid="2ADA9217C7EC59D878D8904F45812C76">On a few benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Kerguelen Islands (southern Indian Ocean), including the description of a new species</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="64F84085F7B9ADCF30875FA7BC2926FA">Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva / Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, Apdo. Correos 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain.</mods:affiliation>
<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B2249FD64355461DF"author="Gaertner, J."box="[335,522,716,742]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="24 - 41"refId="ref7376"refString="Gaertner, J. (1774) Zoophyta, quaedam minuta. In: Pallas, P. S., Specilegia Zoologia. Fasc. 10. G. A. Lange, Berolini, pp. 24 - 41."type="book chapter"year="1774">Gaertner, 1774</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B224BFC9C35536075"author="Allman, G. J."box="[333,525,820,844]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="113 - 115"refId="ref7018"refString="Allman, G. J. (1876) Descriptions of some new species of Hydroida from Kerguelen's Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4, 17, 113 - 115. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937608681913"type="journal article"year="1876">Allman, 1876: 115</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B211EFC9D35DE6075"author="Allman, G. J."box="[536,640,820,845]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="282 - 285"refId="ref7064"refString="Allman, G. J. (1879) Hydroida. In: An account of the petrological, botanical, and zoological collections made in Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez during the transit of Venus Expeditions, carried out by order of Her Majesty's government in the years 1871 - 1875. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 168 (Extra Volume), 282 - 285."type="journal article"year="1879">1879: 285</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B203BFC9C34AD6074"author="Studer, T."box="[829,1011,820,845]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="104 - 141"refId="ref8439"refString="Studer, T. (1879) Die Fauna von Kerguelensland. Verzeichniss der bis jetzt auf Kerguelensland beobachteten Thierspecies nebst kurzen Notizen uber ihr Vorkommen und ihre zoogeographischen Beziehungen. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 45, 104 - 141."type="journal article"year="1879">Studer, 1879: 121</bibRefCitation>
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high, unbranched or with only a few secondary stems (one stem gives rise to seven secondary stems and some of these to one, on one occasion two, third-order stems). Degree of stem annulation variable, but in general stems strong and densely ringed, smooth distally. No distal perisarc collar. Polyps with around 36 tentacles; five in a whorl around hypostome (
<figureCitationid="133B2A76FFE60D5B200CFB87343D6770"box="[778,867,1071,1097]"captionStart="FIGURE 3"captionStartId="5.[151,250,1658,1682]"captionTargetBox="[151,1436,183,1632]"captionTargetId="figure-27@5.[151,1436,181,1634]"captionTargetPageId="5"captionText="FIGURE 3. Coryne pusilla Gaertner, 1774: A, distal part of polyp; B, larger and smaller stenoteles. Eudendrium tottoni Stechow, 1932: C, polyp; D, hydranth’s basal annular swelling; E, male gonophore. Tubularia sp.: F, hydranth and gonophores. Scale bar: 900 µm (F), 600 µm (F close-up), 200 µm (A), 100 µm (C, E), 50 µm (D), 10 µm (B)."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6831895"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/6831895/files/figure.png"pageId="4"pageNumber="278">Fig. 3A</figureCitation>
), the remaining with no clear arrangement.
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<paragraphid="8BBF36F3FFE60D5B23C1FBFB3518678C"blockId="4.[151,1437,890,1997]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278">One or two little-developed gonophores present in a few polyps, originating at axil of basal tentacles. Gonophores roughly spherical, attached by a small pedicel to hydranth body. One 340 µm high and 270 µm in maximum diameter; another 240 µm in diameter.</paragraph>
<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B2243FAAF36B36618"author="Allman, G. J."box="[325,493,1287,1313]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="113 - 115"refId="ref7018"refString="Allman, G. J. (1876) Descriptions of some new species of Hydroida from Kerguelen's Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4, 17, 113 - 115. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937608681913"type="journal article"year="1876">Allman (1876)</bibRefCitation>
from Kerguelen. His brief description, based on infertile material, precludes assigning any material to this species. The present material could be conspecific with Allman’s, agreeing in general with the few characters he described, but the species is not sufficiently characterised.
<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B2391FADB360466B4"author="Schuchert, P."box="[151,346,1395,1421]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="739 - 878"refId="ref8321"refString="Schuchert, P. (2001) Survey of the family Corynidae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Revue suisse de Zoologie, 108 (4), 739 - 878. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 80165"type="journal article"year="2001">Schuchert (2001)</bibRefCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B22D5FA3F352E6688"author="Allman, G. J."box="[467,624,1430,1457]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="137 - 144"refId="ref6977"refString="Allman, G. J. (1859) Notes on the hydroid zoophytes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3, 4, 137 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935908697098"type="journal article"year="1859">Allman, 1859</bibRefCitation>
was again reported from Kerguelen, also based on infertile material, by
<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B27CBFA13323466EC"author="Studer, T."box="[1229,1386,1467,1493]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="104 - 141"refId="ref8439"refString="Studer, T. (1879) Die Fauna von Kerguelensland. Verzeichniss der bis jetzt auf Kerguelensland beobachteten Thierspecies nebst kurzen Notizen uber ihr Vorkommen und ihre zoogeographischen Beziehungen. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 45, 104 - 141."type="journal article"year="1879">Studer (1879)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B2391FA77363E66C0"author="Vanhoffen, E."box="[151,352,1503,1529]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="269 - 340"refId="ref8525"refString="Vanhoffen, E. (1910) Die Hydroiden der Deutschen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903. Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition 1901 - 1903, 11 (Zoology 3), 269 - 340."type="journal article"year="1910">Vanhöffen (1910)</bibRefCitation>
; the latter from the same locality as Allman’s material.
because it agrees with this species in the colony habit, the lack of perisarc collar at the end of the stem, the number of tentacles on the polyp and the size of the nematocysts. According to
<bibRefCitationid="EF914B02FFE60D5B2235F9E336AB655C"author="Schuchert, P."box="[307,501,1611,1637]"pageId="4"pageNumber="278"pagination="739 - 878"refId="ref8321"refString="Schuchert, P. (2001) Survey of the family Corynidae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Revue suisse de Zoologie, 108 (4), 739 - 878. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 80165"type="journal article"year="2001">Schuchert (2001)</bibRefCitation>
high, with five to 15 hydranths per shoot and rarely end in a funnel-shaped dilation; the polyps are provided with 18–28 tentacles. As for the size of the nematocysts, he reported stenoteles 18–23 x 11–15 µm and 12–16 x 6.5–10 µm.
, as Schuchert indicated, it does not come from Kerguelen, but from the English Channel. Therefore, if confirmed, the present material would represent the first record of
