Solanderia gracilis Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846

Calder, Dale R., 2013, Some shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the central east coast of Florida, USA, Zootaxa 3648 (1), pp. 1-72 : 11

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1

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scientific name

Solanderia gracilis Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846
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Solanderia gracilis Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846 View in CoL

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Solanderia gracilis Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846: 219 View in CoL .

Type locality. Caribbean Sea : Guadeloupe ( Duchassaing & Michelin 1846) .

Voucher material. Off Jupiter Inlet, 26°57.1’N, 79°59.6’W, 56 m, 06.v.1976, Johnson-Sea-Link, JSL 2043, diver lockout, one young colony, 1.5 cm high, without gonophores, coll. D. Girardin, ROMIZ B3962 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. Records of Solanderia gracilis Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846 , endemic to the western Atlantic Ocean and the only species of the genus known to occur in the region ( Bouillon et al. 1992), have been summarized in Larson (1987). Most accounts of this warm-water hydroid have been from the Caribbean Sea, although it has also been found off North Carolina. The latter record was based on a specimen collected from the continental shelf off Cape Fear (33°31’N, 77°25’W, 29 m, 18° C, ROMIZ B489), an area influenced by the warm Gulf Stream.

The hydroid from Florida examined here constitutes the second record of this shallow-water species from the east coast of the United States, and extends its known depth range to 56 m. Now preserved in 70% ethanol, the colony is small, very young, and straw-coloured rather than purplish to brownish-red as in larger, older colonies .

A detailed account of Solanderia gracilis , based largely on material from St. John in the Virgin Islands, was given by Vervoort (1962). Absence of Solanderia gracilis from mainland areas and larger islands in the Caribbean Sea was attributed by Larson (1987) to sedimentation, a factor he considered important in limiting its distribution.

Reported distribution. Atlantic coast of Florida. First record.

Elsewhere. North Carolina ( Larson 1987) to Bahia, Brazil ( Bouillon et al. 1992), including the Caribbean Sea ( Larson 1987).

SUBORDER FILIFERA Kühn, 1913

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Anthoathecata

Family

Solanderiidae

Genus

Solanderia

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Solanderia gracilis Duchassaing & Michelin, 1846

Calder, Dale R. 2013
2013
Loc

Solanderia gracilis

Duchassaing, P. & Michelin, H. 1846: 219
1846
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