Turritopsis nutricula McCrady, 1859

Galea, Horia R., 2013, New additions to the shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the French Lesser Antilles: Martinique, Zootaxa 3686 (1), pp. 1-50 : 6

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3686.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5263561

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D6410C37-BF4E-FFF0-FF36-FAF4FC72F904

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scientific name

Turritopsis nutricula McCrady, 1859
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Turritopsis nutricula McCrady, 1859 View in CoL

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Material examined. Stn. 3, 19.ii.2012, 10– 15m, M225: fertile colony, with stems up to 3 cm high, on sponge and worm tubes (MHNG-INVE-82910). Stn. 6, 18.i.2012, 15– 18 m, M006: fertile colony, with stems up to 3 cm high, epizoic on Pennaria disticha (Goldfuss, 1820) (MHNG-INVE-82909).

Remarks. Only small, stolonal material was reported earlier from Guadeloupe ( Galea 2010a), but more characteristic bushy, polysiphonic, fertile colonies occur in the present collection from Martinique. Migotto (1996) provided a redescription of this species. Additional notes, especially on the medusa stage, are found in Schuchert (2004).

Geographical distribution. Western Atlantic, from Bermuda ( Calder 1988) to Brazil ( Migotto 1996). The Caribbean records are summarized by Calder & Kirkendale (2005).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Anthoathecata

Family

Oceaniidae

Genus

Turritopsis

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