Shallow water hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the 2002 NOWRAMP cruise to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Author
Calder, Dale R.
Author
Faucci, Anuschka
0000-0001-9002-8987
anuschka@hawaii.edu
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-12-24
5085
1
1
73
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5085.1.1
1175-5326
5802920
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Bicaularia tongensis
(
Stechow, 1919b
)
Fig.
10g
Sertularella tongensis
Stechow, 1919b: 89
, figs F
1
, G
1
.—
Coles
et al
., 2002a: 318
.—
Carlton & Eldredge, 2009: 38
.
Bicaularia tongensis
.—
Calder, 2020: 217
, fig. 5c, d.
Type
locality.
Kingdom of Tonga:
Tonga
Islands
(
Stechow 1919b
)
.
Voucher material.
Midway Atoll
, on a bryozoan,
23.ix.2002
, one colony,
3.5 mm
high, without gonothecae, coll.
A. Faucci
,
ROMIZ
B5445
.—
Laysan Island
,
on
Halimeda
sp.
,
17.ix.2002
, one colony,
5 mm
high, with gonothecae, coll.
A. Faucci
,
ROMIZ
B5446
.
Remarks.
A taxonomic account of
Bicaularia tongensis
(
Stechow, 1919b
)
in Hawaii has been given earlier (
Calder 2020
). New records of the species from the region are added here from
Midway Atoll
and Laysan Island.
A thorough account of this species, accompanied by a synonymy list, has been provided by Song (2019) and
Song
et al
. (2019)
.
Reported Distribution.
Hawaiian archipelago. Oahu: Kaneohe Bay, Moku Manu Island (
Coles
et al
. 2002a
, as
Sertularella tongensis
;
Calder 2020
).
Elsewhere. Indo-Pacific; Caribbean Sea; Mediterranean Sea (
Song
et al
. 2019
). If
Sertularella exilis
Fraser, 1938
is conspecific, the species also occurs in the eastern Pacific (
Fraser 1938
,
1948
).