Some hydrozoans (Cnidaria) from King George Island, Antarctica
Author
Galea, Horia R.
Author
Schories, Dirk
text
Zootaxa
2012
3321
1
21
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.213236
e70c227b-e9a1-4ca5-a494-91dba1adb191
1175-5326
213236
Hydractinia angusta
Hartlaub, 1904
(Pl. 1A–E,
Fig. 2A–C
)
Hydractinia angusta
Hartlaub, 1904
: 7
, pl. 4. —
Naumov & Stepanjants, 1972
: 35
, fig. 1. —
Stepanjants, 1979
: 13
, pl. 1 fig. 7. —
Peña Cantero & Ramil, 2006
: 950
, fig. 2A. —
Peña Cantero, 2012
: 855
.
Hydronema angustum
—
Stechow, 1923
: 67
. —
Totton, 1930
: 138
. —
Briggs, 1939
: 10
.
Hydractinia dendritica
Hickson & Gravely, 1907
: 9
, pl. 2 figs 7–10.
Hydronema dendriticum
—
Stechow, 1921
: 252
. —
Stechow, 1923
: 67
, fig. F.
?
Hydractinia
sp. —Stepanjants, 1972: 59, fig. 4.
Material examined
.
Stn. SHO
—
16.ii.2011
, Ant.09/2011 (
43 m
): fertile (female) colony on worm tube (MHNG- INVE-79798).
Stn. ARD
—
28.i.2011
, Ant.11/2011 (
39 m
): fertile (female) colony on worm tube (MHNG-INVE- 79799).
Description
. Hydrorhiza an encrusting mat issued through the coalescence of the stolonal system, covered by naked coenosarc (Pl. 1C). Spines present, often continuous with each other (Pl. 1D), provided with low ridges of perisarc (Pl. 1E), open or closed at tips. Polyps dimorphic: gastro- and gonozooids. Gastrozooids up to
5 mm
high in fixed material, notably longer in life (Pl. 1A); with 12–14 amphicoronate tentacles and dome-shaped hypostome. Gonozooids dwarfed, less than
0.5 mm
high, and degenerate, with 1–5 tentacles, and possibly no mouth; 4–6 rounded gonophores basally, each carrying three eggs. Nematocysts: desmonemes (6.0–6.5) × (3.6–3.8) µm and microbasic euryteles (8.9–9.8) × (3.1–3.5) µm (both measured undischarged).
Remarks
.
Totton (1930)
reexamined the
type
of
H. dendritica
Hickson & Gravely, 1907
and suggested that it could reasonably be considered as conspecific with Hartlaub's (1904) species, an opinion which is followed here.
Geographical distribution
. Circum-Antarctic (
Peña Cantero & Ramil 2006
).