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 1 1 72 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1 1175-5326 5264362 22089255-436A-4DBB-BD93-1D3C8CF281FE 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 ).