Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871

Galea, Horia R., 2008, On a collection of shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles, Zootaxa 1878, pp. 1-54 : 10

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.184149
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4669102
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scientific name	Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871
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Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871 View in CoL

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Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871: 228 View in CoL .— Brinckmann-Voss, 1970: 69, figs 80–82.—Millard, 1975: 65, fig. 21A–B.— Hirohito, 1988: 52, fig. 16B–F.— Migotto, 1996: 17, fig. 4A–B.— Schuchert, 1996: 97, fig. 57.— Calder et al., 2003: 1178, fig. 3.—Schuchert, 2006: 368, fig. 16.

Material examined. Stn. 2: 22.01.2008 —several fertile and sterile colonies, 2–4 mm high, on algae, stems of Pennaria disticha Goldfuss, 1820 and sponge; 26.01.2008 —several sterile colonies, 2–4 mm high, on algae ( MHNG INVE 60978). Stn. 3: 26.01.2008 —numerous small colonies, some with gonophores, on algae. Type locality. Herm, Channel Islands, Great Britain.

Remarks. For recent descriptions of this species, see Migotto (1996) and Schuchert (2006). Distribution. Circumglobal, absent from colder regions ( Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002).