Some anthoathecate hydroids and limnopolyps (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Hawaiian archipelago 2590
Author
Calder, Dale R.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-08-31
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2590.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2590.1.1
11755334
Genus
Corydendrium
Van Beneden, 1844a
Corydendrium
Van Beneden, 1844a: 313
.
Type
species.
Sertularia parasitica
Linnaeus, 1767
[
Corydendrium parasiticum
], by monotypy.
Diagnosis.
Oceaniid hydroids sometimes stolonal but usually with erect and irregularly branched colonies. Hydrocaulus polysiphonic or less frequently monosiphonic; hydrocladia, if present, adnate for part or all of their length to hydrocaulus or to other hydrocladia. Perisarc firm, covering hydrocauli and hydrocladia, terminating near hydranth bases; perisarcal tubes of side branches nested. Hydranths club-shaped to elongate-tubular, lacking perisarc; tentacles filiform, scattered over most of hydranth.
Gonophores fixed sporosacs, arising below hydranths as elongate, blind sacs of coenosarc, protected within perisarcal tubes of hydrocladia and hydrocaulus.
Remarks.
Taxonomic and nomenclatural accounts of
Corydendrium
Van Beneden, 1844a
have been provided by
Calder (1988)
and
Schuchert (2004)
. Seven species were listed under the genus in the database of
Schuchert (2009)
, with one of those,
Corydendrium corrugatum
Nutting, 1905
from
Hawaii
, being considered a nomen dubium. It is included as valid here, but further taxonomic appraisal of the species is warranted.