New species, new records and redescriptions of Thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Leptothecata) from Southern Australia
Author
Watson, Jeanette E.
text
Zootaxa
2011
3122
1
36
journal article
45833
10.5281/zenodo.203966
473b918b-d698-4f39-bcbb-f19a2667753a
1175-5326
203966
Genus
Ventromma
Stechow, 1923
Colony erect, branched or unbranched, arising from a creeping hydrorhiza, hydrocladia unbranched, alternate. Hydrotheca only on hydrocladia, cup-shaped, without intrathecal septum, with even rim; nematothecae two-chambered, hydrothecate internode with a median inferior and a median superior nematotheca, no lateral nematothecae; gonophores fixed sporosacs, gonotheca solitary with transverse annulations.