Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Guinea Bissau
Author
Gil, Marta
0000-0002-8985-332X
Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar e Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM-Uvigo), Universidade de Vigo. Campus Lagoas-Marcosende. 36310 Vigo. Spain & martag @ uvigo. gal; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8985 - 332 X
martag@uvigo.gal
Author
Ramil, Fran
0000-0002-9146-8201
Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar e Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM-Uvigo), Universidade de Vigo. Campus Lagoas-Marcosende. 36310 Vigo. Spain & Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar e Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM-Uvigo), Universidade de Vigo. Campus Lagoas-Marcosende. 36310 Vigo. Spain & framil @ uvigo. gal; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9146 - 8201 * Corresponding author
framil@uvigo.gal
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Zootaxa
2025
2025-01-29
5577
1
1
89
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5577.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5577.1.1
1175-5334
14763362
A5924C49-3957-4A8A-BD8E-D0FE741D6B1F
Eudendrium album
Nutting, 1898
Eudendrium album
Nutting, 1898: 362–363
, pl. 14 fig. 1.—
Leloup, 1952: 124
, fig. 61.—
Marques
et al.
, 2000: 77
, figs 1–7.—
Schuchert, 2008: 690
, figs 6–7.—
Schuchert, 2012: 316–317
, fig. 278.
Material examined.
BISSAU-0810, stn BS191, 10º18'25"–
10º19'20"N
, 16º08'47"–
16º08'47"W
,
24–25 m
,
3-XI-2008
: two colonies without gonophores, of which one growing on an unidentified hydroid.
BISSAU-0810, stn BS193, 10º21'13"–
10º21'51"N
, 16º10'17"–
16º10'56"W
,
20–21 m
,
3-XI-2008
: one colony without gonophores, growing on a bryozoan.
Remarks.
The presence of two sizes of macrobasic euryteles, particularly the larger one, is a distinctive feature of
E. album
(
Schuchert 2012
)
. Our colonies represent the first record of
E. album
for
Guinea-Bissau
.
Biology.
This species has been found growing on stones, algae and other hydroids (
Schuchert 2012
). In the northern hemisphere, fertile material has been found between January and August (
Schuchert 2012
).
In our material, some colonies were found growing on unidentified hydroids and a bryozoan.
Distribution.
Schuchert (2008)
pointed out that most identifications of
E. album
do not include information on the cnidome, and should therefore be considered only as tentative.
Eudendrium album
is a boreo-Atlantic species, known to occur from
Norway
to Galicia, in the Mediterranean Sea (
Schuchert 2008
,
2012
) and in
Mauritania
(
Gil & Ramil 2017a
). Its bathymetric range extends from
0 to 1000 m
(
Schuchert 2008
).
Our material was collected at depths between
20–25 m
.