On a collection of shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles Author Galea, Horia R. text Zootaxa 2008 1878 1 54 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.184149 086e0d63-8af0-4ad1-8884-03fa56b5ea98 1175-5326 184149 Plumularia floridana Nutting, 1900 (fig. 9I ) Plumularia floridana Nutting, 1900 : 59 , pl. 2 figs 4–5.— Calder, 1983 : 20 , fig. 11.— Migotto, 1996 : 55 , fig. 10D–F. Plumularia pennycuikae Millard & Bouillon, 1973 : 85 , fig. 10N–P.—Millard, 1975: 398, fig. 126A–C.— Calder, 1997 : 15 , fig. 3.— Ansín Agís et al ., 2001 : 234 , fig. 90. Material examined . Stn. 6 : 28.03.2008 —a dense, fertile colony, ca . 8 mm high, on Thalassia testudinum . Type locality . Vicinity of Cape Romano, Florida, United States . Remarks . The present fertile material is easily identifiable due to the peculiar gonothecae, which arise from the axil of cauline internodes and are small, ovoid to nearly spherical, and covered by a filmy perisarc layer. For detailed descriptions of this species, see Migotto (1996) and Calder (1997) . Distribution . Circumglobal. Extensive data on the previous records are available in Ansín Agís et al . (2001) . The Caribbean records are summarized by Calder & Kirkendale (2005) .