Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871

Calder, Dale R., 2013, Some shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the central east coast of Florida, USA, Zootaxa 3648 (1), pp. 1-72 : 7-8

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5263300

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scientific name

Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871
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Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871 View in CoL

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Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871: 228 View in CoL .

Type locality. UK: Guernsey, Herm , on stones at low tide ( Rotch 1871) .

Voucher material. Fort Pierce Inlet , north jetty, north side, 27°28’24.2”N, 80°17’20.3”W, 0.1 m, 15.ii.1991, 20° C, collected manually, one stolonal colony, up to 5 mm high, without gonophores, coll. D.R. Calder, ROMIZ B1114 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. The earliest account of this species, as Hydra corynaria , was in an obscure paper by Bosc (1797). The French naturalist discovered the species on pelagic Sargassum during a crossing from Bordeaux, France, to Charleston, South Carolina, but the name he applied to it was never adopted. The species has become widely known instead as Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871 . In the interests of nomenclatural stability, the name C. floccosa was assigned precedence over its virtually unused senior subjective synonym H. corynaria by Calder et al. (2003). Under Article 23.9 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999), the former becomes a nomen protectum and the latter a nomen oblitum.

Cladocoryne floccosa has been reported several times from the Caribbean region (e.g., Fraser 1947, as C. pelagica Allman, 1876 ; Wedler & Larson 1986; Galea 2008). Fraser’s (1944) record of it from 1544 fathoms (2824 m) at a location south of Nantucket, Massachusetts (as C. pelagica ) is anomalous and the species must certainly have been growing on floating (or sunken) Sargassum , as he speculated. According to Schuchert (2006, 2012b), its bathymetric range is 0– 50 m.

Reported distribution. Atlantic coast of Florida. First record.

Western Atlantic. Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, on floating Sargassum ( Hargitt 1909, as C. floccosa var. sargassensis ) to Brazil ( Migotto 1996), and including the Caribbean Sea ( Galea 2008).

Elsewhere. Thought to be circumglobal in tropical and warm-temperate waters ( Schuchert 2006, 2012b).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Anthoathecata

Family

Cladocorynidae

Genus

Cladocoryne

Loc

Cladocoryne floccosa Rotch, 1871

Calder, Dale R. 2013
2013
Loc

Cladocoryne floccosa

Rotch, W. D. 1871: 228
1871
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