Some hydroids (Hydrozoa: Hydroidolina) from Dampier, Western Australia: annotated list with description of two new species.
Author
Watson, Jeanette E.
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2012
2012-12-31
69
355
363
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-69-2012/pages-355-363/
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2012.69.09
1447-2554
12212553
Diphasia digitalis
Busk, (1852)
Figure 3B, C
Sertularia digitalis
Busk, 1852: 387
, 393.
Diphasia digitalis
(Busk)
.– von
Lendenfeld, 1885a: 415
, 633.–
Bale, 1884: 101
.–
Bale, 1915: 265
.–
Jäderholm, 1920: 4
.–
Billard, 1931: 249
.–
Vervoort, 1972: 99
.–
Pennycuik, 1959: 191
.–
Millard, 1975: 257
.–
Watson, 1996: 78
.–
Watson 2000: 14
, fig. 10A, B.–
Schuchert, 2003: 166
, fig. 25.
Material examined.
WAM
Z31867. Two broken infertile stems, the longer
22 mm
; microslide, malinol mount.
Description.
Hydrorhiza creeping, stolons tubular. Stems sparingly branched, proximal athecate stem segment long, tubular, with a strong distal hinge joint. Hydrothecae paired, one pair per internode, nodes transverse, indistinct to absent, marked only by a narrowing of internode. Hydrotheca long, tubular, expanding from base to margin, free adcauline wall convex, abcauline wall concave. Margin quadrangular, with a low abcauline cusp and an indistinct longitudinal pleat extending downwards from margin, fading out near base of hydrotheca. Remains of operculae visible inside many hydrothecae. Perisarc smooth.