Lytocarpia delicatula Busk, (1852)

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

Lytocarpia delicatula Busk, (1852)

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Plumularia delicatula Busk, 1852: 396 .

Aglaophenia delicatula .– Bale, 1884: 167.– Kirkpatrick, 1890: 604.– Billard, 1913: 106.– Pennycuik, 1959: 185. – Watson, 2000: 57, fig. 46A–E.

Thecocarpus delicatulus . – Millard and Bouillon, 1973: 94.

Lytocarpia delicatula .– Schuchert, 2003: 235, fig.76.

Material examined. WAM Z31848. Several pinnate stems to 35 mm long, one stem fertile; microslide, malinol mounted.

Remarks. The material conforms with the description of Lytocarpia delicatula from Darwin by Watson (2000) and from Indonesia by Schuchert (2003). Male and female gonophores are borne on the same corbula.

Distribution. Maldives, Moçambique, Indonesia, t ropical northern and eastern Australia.

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