Campanularia macroscypha Allman, 1877

Calder, Dale R., 2013, Some shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the central east coast of Florida, USA, Zootaxa 3648 (1), pp. 1-72 : 52-54

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Campanularia macroscypha Allman, 1877 View in CoL

Fig. 15a, b View FIGURE 15

Campanularia macroscypha Allman, 1877: 11 View in CoL , pl. 8, figs. 1, 2.— Fraser, 1943: 88.

Type locality. USA: Florida, off Sand Key , 120 fathoms (219 m) ( Allman 1877) .

Voucher material. Off St. Lucie Inlet, 27°10.8’N, 80°02.5’W, on Eudendrium carneum , 22 m, 24.vii.1975, Johnson-Sea-Link, JSL 273, one colony, up to 2 mm high, without gonophores, coll. T. Askew, ROMIZ B1088 GoogleMaps .— Off St. Lucie Inlet, 27°11.4’N, 80°00.9’W, 42 m, 18.v.1976, Johnson-Sea-Link, diver lockout, one colony, up to 4 mm high, without gonophores, coll. M. Flake, ROMIZ B1101 GoogleMaps .— Off St. Lucie Inlet, 27°10.8’N, 80°00.8’W, 43 m, 24.viii.1977, Johnson-Sea-Link, JSL 1439, diver lockout, one colony, up to 1.1 cm high, without medusa buds, coll. J. Reed, ROMIZ B1104 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. Campanularia macroscypha Allman 1877 is distinguished by having long, cylindrical hydrothecae with a dozen or more deeply-cut, linguiform cusps, and irregularly-segmented pedicels. It is known only from the southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico. A hydroid of relatively deep waters, its previously-known bathymetric range is 84–1119 m ( Henry et al. 2008). Voucher material above from St. Lucie Inlet was from shallower depths of 22– 43 m. Specimens reported from a station (Stn. 117, 32°04.03’N, 65°02.48’W) on Challenger Bank, off Bermuda ( Calder 2000) were collected at 49 m.

Gonothecae of this species remain undescribed.

Reported distribution. Atlantic coast of Florida. First record.

Western Atlantic. Cape Lookout, North Carolina ( Henry et al. 2008) to the Gulf of Mexico north of Yucatan ( Fraser 1944), as well as Bermuda ( Calder 1998, 2000).

References

Allman, G. J. (1877) Report on the Hydroida collected during the exploration of the Gulf Stream by L. F. de Pourtales, assistant United States Coast Survey. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 5 (2), 1 - 66.

Calder, D. R. (1998) Hydroid diversity and species composition along a gradient from shallow waters to deep sea around Bermuda. Deep-Sea Research I, 45, 1843 - 1860. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0967 - 0637 (98) 00044 - 2

Calder, D. R. (2000) Assemblages of hydroids (Cnidaria) from three seamounts near Bermuda in the western North Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I, 47, 1125 - 1139. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / S 0967 - 0637 (99) 00093 - X

Fraser, C. M. (1943) Distribution records of some hydroids in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, with description of new genera and new species. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, 22, 75 - 98.

Fraser, C. M. (1944) Hydroids of the Atlantic coast of North America. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 451 pp.

Henry, L. - A., Nizinski, M. S. & Ross, S. W. (2008) Occurrence and biogeography of hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from deepwater coral habitats off the southeastern United States. Deep-Sea Research I, 55, 788 - 800. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. dsr. 2008.03.002

Figures

FIGURE 15. a, Campanularia macroscypha: part of colony with hydrotheca, ROMIZ B1101, scale equals 0.5 mm. b, Campanularia macroscypha: hydrotheca and distal part of pedicel, ROMIZ B1101, scale equals 0.20 mm. c, Orthopyxis sargassicola: hydrotheca and distal part of pedicel, ROMIZ B1123, scale equals 0.20 mm. d, Orthopyxis sargassicola: gonotheca, ROMIZ B1123, scale equals 0.20 mm. e, Clytia elsaeoswaldae: part of a colony with hydrotheca and gonotheca, ROMIZ B1134, scale equals 0.25 mm. f, Clytia linearis: hydrotheca and distal part of pedicel, ROMIZ B3983, scale equals 0.25 mm.