Systematic affinities of Zygophylacidae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Macrocolonia) with descriptions of 15 deep-sea species
Author
Gu, Zhangjie
Author
Ruthensteiner, Bernhard
Author
Moura, Carlos J.
Author
Liu, Lihua
Author
Zhang, Rui
Author
Song, Xikun
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2022
Zool. J. Linn. Soc.
2022-06-17
196
52
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http://zoobank.org/22984f44-21e0-43ab-9d46-547c8306448a
journal article
133182
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac036
f1c43083-ab5f-4130-82f0-0418e8954791
0024-4082
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22984F44-21E0-43AB-9D46-547C8306448A
ZYGOPHYLAX
CF.
SAGAMIENSIS
HIROHITO, 1983
(
FIG. 18
)
Zygophylax sagamiensis
Hirohito, 1983: 6
, 30–31, fig. 11;
Rees & Vervoort, 1987: 85–86
;
Hirohito, 1995: 144
, fig. 44a–e, pl. 9, fig. C;
Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 69
;
Figure 18.
Zygophylax
cf.
sagamiensis
Hirohito, 1983
. A, a colony; B, F, G, images of the same coppinia; C, alternate hydrothecae with one nematotheca (arrow); D, hydrothecae and nematothecae (arrows); E, magnification of a nematotheca; H, two (fused) gonothecae. From samples: A–H: XMUB8109, South China Sea. A–C, light microscope images; D–H, SEM images. Scale bars: A = 5 mm; B = 500 µm; C, D, F = 200 µm; E = 20 µm; G, H = 100 µm.
Watson, 2003: 160–161
, fig. 10A–F; 2006: 245–247,
fig. 20.
Type
locality:
Sagami Bay
,
Japan
;
250–300 m
.
Specimens examined:
Two fertile and 10 infertile colonies from South
China
Sea; see details in Supporting Information,
Table S1
.
Molecular sequences:
16S rRNA, 18S rRNA and
COI
genes (this study); see sequence details in Supporting Information,
Table S3
.