Halopteris glutinosa Lamouroux, (1816)

Watson, Jeanette E., 2012, Some hydroids (Hydrozoa: Hydroidolina) from Dampier, Western Australia: annotated list with description of two new species., Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69, pp. 355-363 : 359

Halopteris glutinosa Lamouroux, (1816)

Figure 3D

Aglaophenia Glutinosa Lamouroux, 1816:171 . Plumularia glutinosa . – Billard, 1909: 327.– Billard, 1910: 36, fig.16. Plumularia buskii Bale, 1884: 125 , pl. 10, fig. 3, pl. 19, figs 34–35.–

Bale, 1887: 22. Plumularia buski . – Billard, 1913: 21, fig. 11. Halopteris buski . – Watson, 1973: 184.– Schuchert, 1997: 58, figs

18, 19.– Vervoort and Watson, 2003: 353. Halopteris glutinosa . – Watson, 2005: 537, fig. 37A, B.

Material examined. WAM Z31868. One stem fragment 5 mm long, detached from substrate; microslide, malinol mounted.

Remarks. Billard (1913) recorded H. glutinosa (as Plumularia buski ) from nine sites on sand, shell sand and Lithothamnion from depths of 13–522 m in Indonesia. A specimen from Japan (author’s collection) is also H. glutinosa .

Distribution. Southern and south–western Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Japan.

Figures

Figure 3A–D. A. Hebella costata. Hydrotheca with proximal corrugations. B, C. Diphasia digitalis. B, branched stem. C, stem internode with opposite hydrothecae. D. Halopteris glutinosa. Hydrocladial athecate and thecate internodes. Scale bar, mm: A, 0.5. B, 1.0. C, D, 0.25.