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Cirrholovenia tetranema Kramp 1959

Description

Cirrholovenia cf. tetranema Kramp, 1959 b

(fig. 4D)

Cirrholovenia tetranema Kramp, 1959b: 243, fig. 17A–B.— Brinckmann, 1965: 13, figs 1–3. Egmundella amirantensis Millard & Bouillon, 1973: 40, fig. 5A–D.—Millard, 1975: 133, fig. 43G.— Ramil & Vervoort, 1992: 22, fig. 2A–D.— Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 2002: 48, fig. 10A–D.

Lafoeina amirantensis — Calder, 1991d: 10, fig. 3.— Calder & Vervoort, 1998: 15, fig. 5.— Calder et al., 2003: 1180, fig. 5.— Migotto & Cabral, 2005: 3, figs 1–3.

Material examined. Stn. 3: 01.04.2008 —a few hydrothecae and nematothecae, but no gonothecae, on stolons of sertulariid and corynid hydroids. Stn. 6: 23.03.2008 —a small, sterile colony, on Halimeda sp.

Type locality. Near Solomon Islands, Melanesia (medusa).

Remarks. The present material is tentatively assigned to Kramp’s (1959b) species. Since Cirrholovenia tetranema is reliably identified through its medusa stage, it is possible that similar polyps may produce different medusae.

Migotto & Cabral (2005) showed that Lafoeina amirantensis (Millard & Bouillon 1973) is the hydroid of the medusa Cirrholovenia tetranema Kramp, 1959 and provided a complete redescription of both stages.

Distribution. Scattered records from both the western and eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans. A detailed list of records is provided by Migotto & Cabral (2005).

Other

Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2008, On a collection of shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 1878 on page 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184149

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lovenellidae
Genus
Cirrholovenia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Kramp
Species
tetranema
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cirrholovenia tetranema Kramp, 1959 sec. Galea, 2008

References

  • Kramp, P. L. (1959 b) Some new and little-known Indo-Pacific medusae. Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 121, 223 - 259.
  • Brinckmann, A. (1965) The life cycle of the medusa Cirrholovenia tetranema Kramp, 1959 (Leptomedusae, Lovenellidae) with a hydroid of the genus Cuspidella Hincks. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 43, 13 - 15.
  • Millard, N. A. H. & Bouillon, J. (1973) Hydroids from the Seychelles (Coelenterata). Annales du Museum Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 206, 1 - 105.
  • Ramil, F. & Vervoort, W. (1992) Report on the Hydroida collected by the " BALGIM " expedition in and around the Strait of Gibraltar. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 277, 1 - 262.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Garcia Carrascosa, A. M. (2002) The benthic hydroid fauna of the Chafarinas islands (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 337, 1 - 180.
  • Calder, D. R. (1991 d) Shallow-water hydroids of Bermuda: the Thecatae exclusive of Plumularioidea. Royal Ontario Museum Life Sciences Contributions, 154, 1 - 140.
  • Calder, D. R. & Vervoort, W. (1998) Some hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in the North Atlantic Ocean. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 319, 1 - 65.
  • Calder, D. R., Mallinson, J. J., Collins, K. & Hickman, C. P. (2003) Additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria) of the Galapagos, with a list of species reported from the islands. Journal of Natural History, 37, 1173 - 1218.
  • Migotto, A. E. & Cabral, A. S. (2005) Lafoeina amirantensis (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa, Campanuliniodea), the hydroid stage of the medusa Cirrholovenia tetranema (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa, Lovenelloidea). Zootaxa, 919, 1 - 16.