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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,406,1281,1308]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="495">Egmundella modesta</emphasis>
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(
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(?)— 
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, fig. 5E–F.
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<emphasis box="[151,364,1412,1436]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="495">Egmundella modesta</emphasis>
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, fig. 1E–H; 
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,383,1476,1502]" pageId="5" pageNumber="495">Material examined.</emphasis>
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MAROC-0611, stn MO235, 23º12′00″– 
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, 17º11′16″– 
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,345,1548,1574]" pageId="5" pageNumber="495">Description.</emphasis>
Colony stolonal, composed of hydrothecae and nematothecae arising from a filiform hydrorhiza. Hydrothecae borne on pedicels of varied length, though most are short, slender, generally smooth, occasionally with 2–5 basal annulations and sometimes a few irregularly-placed, additional annulations along its length, distally widening at junction with the corresponding theca, and there provided with a transverse, thin diaphragm. Hydrotheca deeply campanulate, tapering basally, walls almost parallel, aperture closed by a conical operculum, composed of 8–10 elongate, triangular flaps, independent from one another; flaps may be folded either inwards or outwards and, in this case, the rim is distinctly-marked. Nematothecae irregularly scattered, small, globular, borne on short pedicels, aperture apical, oval. No gonothecae observed.
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<emphasis box="[300,534,1836,1862]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="495">Egmundella modesta</emphasis>
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has been reported so far growing on an unidentifiable hydroid fragment (
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In our material, it was found growing on a species of 
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[199,353,1944,1970]" pageId="5" pageNumber="495">Distribution.</emphasis>
This species has previously been found in the 
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, as 
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; 
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) and 
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(
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). Its bathymetric distribution ranges from the littoral zone (
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(
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).
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material was found off 
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at depths from 
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[206,322,187,213]" pageId="6" pageNumber="496">Remarks.</emphasis>
The material agrees in morphology with the 
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described by 
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from the 
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and with the CANCAP material of 
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<emphasis box="[721,846,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="496">E. modesta</emphasis>
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studied by 
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. In our material most of hydrothecae have short pedicels. However, some hydrothecae are larger in size, and have longer pedicels (
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). This feature was also described by 
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, but we now provide more extensive measurements (see table 2).
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Largest hydrothecae resemble those of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Leloup" authorityYear="1940" box="[638,774,331,357]" class="Hydrozoa" family="Campanulinidae" genus="Egmundella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Leptothecata" pageId="6" pageNumber="496" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="grimaldii">
<emphasis box="[638,774,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="496">E. grimaldii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but in that species the colonies form rhizocaulomic, stemlike structures, a character not observed in our material, where the hydrorhiza is composed of a single stolon growing on 
<taxonomicName box="[188,338,403,429]" class="Hydrozoa" family="Haleciidae" genus="Halecium" kingdom="Animalia" order="Leptothecata" pageId="6" pageNumber="496" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis box="[188,297,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="496">Halecium</emphasis>
sp.
</taxonomicName>
Moreover, in 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Leloup" authorityYear="1940" box="[504,641,403,429]" class="Hydrozoa" family="Campanulinidae" genus="Egmundella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Leptothecata" pageId="6" pageNumber="496" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="grimaldii">
<emphasis box="[504,641,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="496">E. grimaldii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the hydrothecal pedicels are shorter and the nematothecae are larger.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[151,1437,151,501]" pageId="6" pageNumber="496">
After comparing material of both species collected during the 
<collectingCountry box="[895,998,439,465]" name="Morocco" pageId="6" pageNumber="496">MAROC</collectingCountry>
surveys, we concluded that the present material is clearly different from 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Leloup" authorityYear="1940" box="[514,648,475,501]" class="Hydrozoa" family="Campanulinidae" genus="Egmundella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Leptothecata" pageId="6" pageNumber="496" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="grimaldii">
<emphasis box="[514,648,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="496">E. grimaldii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, while fitting well the descriptions of 
<taxonomicName authorityName="Millard &amp; Bouillon" authorityYear="1975" box="[1063,1186,475,501]" class="Hydrozoa" family="Campanulinidae" genus="Egmundella" kingdom="Animalia" order="Leptothecata" pageId="6" pageNumber="496" phylum="Cnidaria" rank="species" species="modesta">
<emphasis box="[1063,1186,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="496">E. modesta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
found in the literature.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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