A review of the family Sphaeronectidae (Class Hydrozoa, Order Siphonophora), with the description of three new species
Author
P. R. Pugh
text
Zootaxa
2009
2147
1
48
journal article
1175-5326
Sphaeronectes gamulini
Carré, 1966
(See
Figures 16
&
17
)
Sphaeronectes gamulini
Carré, 1966, p. 1070
, fig. 1, Pl. 1; 1968c, p. 91, Pl. 1, figs. 5–6, Pl 2, fig. 7; Palma, 1984, p. 83, fig. 1; Gamulin & Kršinić, 2000, p. 134, fig. 84; Bouillon
et al.
2004, p. 230, fig. 142A–D.
Distribution:
Sphaeronectes gamulini
was originally described by C. Carré (1966) from specimens caught in the entrance to the Rade Villefranche-sur-Mer in non-closing nets fished at
50 m
or between 50 and
100 m
.
It has also been found elsewhere in the western Mediterranean by Specchi
et al.
(1976) [off Sardinia], Ianora & Scotto di Carlo (1981) [Bay of Naples], and Dallot
et al
. (1988) [Alborán Sea]. In the eastern Mediterranean it has been found often in the Adriatic Sea by Rottini & Gamulin (1969), Batistić
et al.
(2004), Gamulin (1979), and in all the relevant papers quoted below for
S. fragilis
, except for Gamulin (1977). It has also been found off
Chile
by Palma (1984), who gave a further description of both the polygastric and eudoxid stages, and by Apablaza & Palma (2006).