Some shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the central east coast of Florida, USA
Author
Calder, Dale R.
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-05-14
3648
1
1
72
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1
1175-5326
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Plumularia floridana
Nutting, 1900
Fig. 10d
Plumularia floridana
Nutting, 1900: 59
, pl. 2, figs. 4–5.—
Jones, 2002: 217
.
Type
locality.
USA
:
Florida
, “two miles west of Cape Romano...” (
Nutting
1990: 59)
.
Voucher material.
Off Vero Beach,
27°41.2’N
,
80°14.5’W
,
17 m
,
13.ii.1974
, small biological dredge, R/
V
Gosnold
Station
220/226, four colony fragments, up to
1.9 cm
high, without gonophores,
ROMIZ
B1080
.
Remarks
. Material examined here came from a station on the inner continental shelf off Vero Beach. With the exception of its occurrence on floating
Sargassum
(
Fraser 1944
)
,
Plumularia floridana
Nutting, 1900
is a species more frequently recorded inshore than offshore along the southeastern
United States
. While common in estuaries of
South Carolina
(
Calder & Hester 1978
;
Calder 1983
), it has not yet been reported from hard bottom areas on the shelf between
North Carolina
and
Florida
(
Cain 1972
;
Wenner
et al
. 1984
). As noted earlier (
Calder 1997
), the species is eurytopic, surviving temperatures down to 10° C and salinities as low as 25‰.
An extensive synonymy of this species is listed in
Ansín Agís
et al
. (2001)
, who described material from the Canary Islands.
Reported distribution.
Atlantic coast of
Florida
. Biscayne
Bay
(
Jones 2002
).
Western Atlantic. South Carolina (
Calder 1983
) to
Brazil
(Oliveira
et al
. submitted), including
Bermuda
(
Calder 1997
) and the Gulf of Mexico (
Calder & Cairns 2009
). It extends northwards to New
England
on
Sargassum
(
Fraser 1944
)
.
Elsewhere. Believed to be circumglobal, mostly in tropical and warm-temperate waters (
Ansín Agís
et al
. 2001
).