Some shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the central east coast of Florida, USA
Author
Calder, Dale R.
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-05-14
3648
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1
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Dynamena crisioides
Lamouroux, 1824
Fig. 8b
Dynamena crisioides
Lamouroux, 1824: 613
, pl. 90, figs. 11, 12.
Type
locality.
Indonesia
: Moluccas (
Lamouroux 1824
)
.
Voucher material.
Off Palm Beach
,
26°48.4’N
,
79°58.6’W
,
37 m
,
16.ix.1975
,
Johnson-Sea-Link
, JSL 288, one colony,
4.5 cm
high, without gonophores, coll. S.
Nelson
,
ROMIZ
B1089
.—
Fort Pierce Inlet
, north jetty, north side,
27°28’24.1”N
,
80°17’21.2”W
, intertidal zone, on rocks,
14.vii.2012
, 28° C, 35‰, collected manually, seven cormoids, up to
3.7 mm
high, two with gonothecae, coll.
D.R. Calder
,
ROMIZ
B3965
.
Remarks
.
Dynamena crisioides
Lamouroux, 1824
is a conspicuous and well-known intertidal and shallow subtidal species occurring at lower latitudes worldwide. It was found here off the east coast of
Florida
at a depth of
37 m
(ROMIZ B1089), as well as intertidally on jetty rocks at Fort Pierce Inlet (ROMIZ B3965). Taxonomic (
Calder 1991a
) and ecological (
Calder, 1991d
) accounts of the species have been given earlier.
Reported distribution.
Atlantic coast of
Florida
. First record.
Western Atlantic.
Bahamas
, Florida Keys (
Fraser 1944
), and Dry
Tortugas
(
Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen 1965
) to
Brazil
(Oliveira
et al
. submitted), including
Bermuda
(
Calder 1991a
), the Gulf of Mexico (
Calder & Cairns 2009
), and the Caribbean Sea (
Galea 2008
).
Elsewhere. Circumglobal in shallow waters of the tropics and subtropics (
Calder, 1991a
;
Schuchert 2003
).