Notes on a small collection of thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Tristan da Cunha, south Atlantic
Author
Galea, Horia R.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2336
1
18
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.205235
58869148-c1e6-483c-9a76-0f1976cdeda9
1175-5326
205235
Sertularella gayi
(Lamouroux, 1821)
(
fig. 4
N, O)
Sertularia Gayi
Lamouroux, 1821: 12
, pl. 66 figs 8–9.
Sertularella gayi
– Ramil
et al
., 1992: 496,
figs 1
A, 2–3. – Cornelius, 1995b: 71, fig. 16.
Material examined. Stn. T10
,
15.ii.2005
: one sterile colony, 5.5 cm high, with polysiphonic stem.
Stn. T19
,
07.iii. 2005
: one fragmentary colony, 6.5 cm high, polysiphonic basally, and a large, polysiphonic colony,
11 cm
high (
NHM
2009.21), both sterile.
Distribution
. Sterile specimens of this species, from off Gough Island (depth
183 m
), were previously collected by the S.Y.
Scotia
(Ritchie 1907)
. This species is widely distributed in the Atlantic, though absent from Antarctic waters; also present in the northern Pacific (Vervoort & Watson 2003).