On a collection of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the southwest coast of Florida, USA Author Calder, Dale R. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-10-25 4689 1 1 141 journal article 25128 10.11646/zootaxa.4689.1.1 a63613b4-e611-42e8-89cd-2d3aae126759 1175-5326 3519047 41BFBBDF-41AD-4329-B6B9-CF38D64815A6 Corydendrium parasiticum ( Linnaeus, 1767 ) Fig. 1b Sertularia parasitica Linnaeus, 1767: 1315 . Type locality. “Habitat in Oceano, saepe in Corallina rubente ” ( Mediterranean Sea ) ( Linnaeus 1767: 1315 ) . Material examined. Southwest Florida Shelf, outer shelf NW of the Dry Tortugas , 25°16.83’N , 83°57.35’W , 127 m , 03 August 1981 , triangle dredge, two colony fragments, 13 mm and 6 mm high, without gonophores, coll. Continental Shelf Associates, ROMIZ B449. Remarks. Although not reported before from southwest Florida , Corydendrium parasiticum is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean ( Calder & Kirkendale 2005 ; Galea 2013 ; Oliveira et al . 2016 ). Specimens examined here were collected at the deep end of its known bathymetric range ( 1–127 m ). An overview of the species is given in Schuchert (2004) . Reported distribution. Gulf coast of Florida . First record. Elsewhere in western North Atlantic . Colombia ( Wedler 1975: 333 ; Flórez González 1983: 118 ; Bandel & Wedler 1987: 39 ).— Belize ( Spracklin 1982: 240 ).— Puerto Rico ( Wedler & Larson 1986: 82 ).— USA : Louisiana , on coastal petroleum platforms, 12–18 m ( Lewbel et al . 1987: 219 ).— Bermuda : Flatts Inlet, 3 m , under flat rock + 2 km SE of Castle Roads, 60-90 m , on rubble + Harrington Sound, near Flatts Inlet bridge, 1.5 m , on ledge ( Calder 1988: 6 ).— USA : North Carolina , Wrightsville Beach ( Lindquist & Hay 1996: 448 ; Stachowicz & Lindquist 2000: 282 ; Lindquist et al . 2000: 1291 ).— Panama : Colón + Bocas del Toro ( Calder & Kirkendale 2005: 477 ).— Cuba : Ciudad de La Habana , Miramar, 12 m ( Varela et al . 2005: 177 ).—French Lesser Antilles: Martinique ( Galea 2013: 6 ).—French Lesser Antilles: Guadeloupe ( Galea 2013: 6 ).—Caribbean Sea ( Wedler 2017b: 41 , figs. 33–35).— Mexico : Alacranes Reef, on sponges, corals, molluscs, ascidians, artificial reefs ( Mendoza-Becerril et al . 2018b: 129 ).— Cuba : Havana , coral reef system west of the city (Castellanos et al . 2018: Supplementary Table S2).