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)
.