Hebellopsis communis Calder, 1991a

Calder, Dale R., 2013, Some shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the central east coast of Florida, USA, Zootaxa 3648 (1), pp. 1-72 : 19

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5263334

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scientific name

Hebellopsis communis Calder, 1991a
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Hebellopsis communis Calder, 1991a View in CoL

Fig. 5c View FIGURE 5

Hebellopsis communis Calder, 1991a: 42 View in CoL , Figs. 26 a, b.

Type locality. Bermuda: 2 km off Castle Roads ( Calder 1991a) .

Voucher material. Bethel Shoal off Vero Beach, 27°42.6’N, 80°06.8’W, 24 m, on Thyroscyphus marginatus , 18.ii.1976, Johnson-Sea-Link, JSL 328, diver lockout, one colony, without gonothecae, coll. S. Nelson, ROMIZ B1100 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. Hebellopsis communis Calder, 1991a resembles H. scandens ( Bale, 1888) , but differs in having: (1) hydrothecae that are deeper (>500 µm vs. <500 µm) and deeply campanulate rather than cylindrical and often markedly curved, (2) hydrothecal pedicels that are spirally annulated and of varied length (up to 400 µm long) rather than smooth and short (up to 130 µm long), and (3) hydrothecal orifices with larger openings (diameter 256– 280 µm vs. 160–191 µm). Hydrothecae resemble those of Hebella furax Millard, 1957 but lack a rounded annular ring basally. Hebellopsis gigas ( Pieper, 1884) is also similar, but it has longer pedicels and hydrothecae with a more pronounced distal flare.

This species, usually epizoic on other hydroids (especially Thyroscyphus marginatus Allman, 1877 ), is known only from the warm western Atlantic ( Calder 1991a, 2000; Castellanos Iglesias et al. 2011; Oliveira et al. submitted). Its gonophores have yet to be described.

Reported distribution. Atlantic coast of Florida. First record.

Western Atlantic. Bermuda ( Calder 1991a) to Brazil (Oliveira et al. submitted).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Leptothecata

Family

Hebellidae

Genus

Hebellopsis

Loc

Hebellopsis communis Calder, 1991a

Calder, Dale R. 2013
2013
Loc

Hebellopsis communis

Calder, D. R. 1991: 42
1991
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