Some hydroids (Hydrozoa: Hydroidolina) from Dampier, Western Australia: annotated list with description of two new species.
Author
Watson, Jeanette E.
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2012
2012-12-31
69
355
363
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-69-2012/pages-355-363/
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2012.69.09
1447-2554
12212553
Lafoeina amirantensis
Millard and Bouillon, (1973)
Figure 1C, D
Egmundella amirantensis
Millard and Bouillon, 1973: 40
.–
Millard, 1975: 133
.–
Gibbons and Ryland, 1989: 389
.–
Ramil and Vervoort, 1992: 22
.
Lafoeina amirantensis
.
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Calder, 1991: 10
.–
Watson, 1994: 147
.–
Calder and Vervoort, 1998: 15
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Watson, 2000: 5
, fig. 2A, B.
Material examined.
WAM
Z31850. Infertile colonies on
Eudendrium racemosum
; one microslide, malinol mount.
Description.
Colonies stolonal, creeping on branches of host, stolons flattened, roughened and coated with fine sediment. Hydrothecae minute, arising at intervals along hydrorhiza, subconical to cylindrical, very variable in size, sometimes asymmetrically curved, base expanding from a short, wide pedicel, operculum of numerous segments overlapping at apex, no demarcation between opercular segments and body of hydrotheca. Nematothecae sparse, on hydrorhiza between hydrothecae, minute, clavate.