Plumularia bedoti Billard, (1911)

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 : 362

Plumularia bedoti Billard, (1911)

Figure 4E

Plumularia bedoti Billard, 1911: 64 .– Billard 1913: 27.– Watson,

2000: 54, fig. 42A–D.

Material examined. WAM Z31847. Infertile stem fragment 13 mm long. Microslide, malinol mount.

Remarks. The material c onforms with the description of Plumularia bedoti from Darwin ( Watson 2000). The stem is lightly fascicled and there are distal anastomoses on the hydrocladia.

Distribution. Indonesia, tropical Australia (Darwin).

Figures

Figure 4A–E. A. Plumularia fragilia sp. nov., holotype colony. B, stem internodes and alternate hydrocladia. C, proximal part of hydrocladium and apophysis with axial nematothecae. D, hydrocladium with athecate and thecate internodes. E. Plumularia bedoti. Distal part of hydrocladium with developing anastomose. F. Lytocarpia delicatula. Two hydrocladial hydrothecae. Scale bar, mm: A 10. B, 1.0. C–F, 0.2