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
Nemalecium lighti
(
Hargitt, 1924
)
(fig. 4M–
O
)
Halecium lighti
Hargitt, 1924
: 489
, pl. 4 fig. 13.
Nemalecium lighti
—
Bouillon, 1986
: 73
, figs 1–4, pls 1–3.—
Calder, 1991d
: 27
, figs 17–18.—
Migotto, 1996
: 36
, fig. 7H– I.—
Gravier-Bonnet & Migotto, 2000
: 207
, figs 1–2.
Material examined
.
Stn. 1
:
20.03.2008
—several colonies,
ca
.
5 mm
high, some fertile, on
Thalassia testudinum
;
31.03.2008
—a few sterile stems,
4–5 mm
high, on
T. testudinum
.
Stn. 2
:
22.01.2008
—a few sterile stems, up to
1 cm
high, on sponge.
Stn. 5
:
31.03.2008
—two sterile stems,
4–5 mm
high, on hydrocoral.
Stn. 6
:
23.03.2008
—numerous sterile colonies, with both mono- and polysiphonic stems, up to
5 cm
high, on various algae, concretions and sponge;
24.03.2008
—one sterile colony,
2–4 mm
high, on
Caulerpa
sp.;
28.03.2008
—numerous colonies, some fertile, up to
4 mm
high, on
T. testudinum
.
Stn. 7
:
25.03.2008
—one fertile colony,
ca
.
1.8 cm
high, on sponge;
27.03.2008
—a few sterile colonies, 0.4–1.0 cm high, on
T. testudinum
, hydrocoral and concretions.
Type
locality
. Port Galera Bay, Mindoro,
Philippines
.
Remarks
. The present material is composed of both small, slender, unbranched or sparingly branched, monosiphonic stems, mainly growing on algae and phanerogams, and large, branched, polysiphonic colonies growing on hard substrates or epizoic on other organisms (mainly sponges). For a recent description of
N. lighti
from the western Atlantic, and additional data on it, see
Calder (1991d)
. Gonangium development and medusoid structure were studied by
Gravier-Bonnet & Migotto (2000)
.
Distribution
. Indian Ocean, Western Pacific,
Bermuda
(
Calder 1991d
),
Brazil
(
Migotto 1996
).