Gymnangium japonicum Watson and Vervoort

Watson, Jeanette W., 2003, Deep-water hydroids (Hydrozoa: Leptolida) from Macquarie Island, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60 (2), pp. 151-180 : 173

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2003.60.18

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F8846-FFC5-FF90-2B4D-FED1FCA1FCA7

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scientific name

Gymnangium japonicum Watson and Vervoort
status

 

Gymnangium japonicum Watson and Vervoort View in CoL

Figures 23A, B View Figures 23

Gymnangium japonicum Watson and Vervoort, 2001: 182 View in CoL , figs 15a–g.

Halicetta sp. — Hirohito, 1995: 293, figs 103e–g, pl. 13 fig. D.

Material examined. Stn 122, TM K2789, specimen alcohol-preserved, NMV F91351, malinol-mounted microslide from same colony; broken infertile stem 50 mm long, detached from substrate.

Distribution. Originally recorded (as Halicetta sp. ) from a depth of 250 m from Japan ( Hirohito, 1995), from 750–900 m south-east of Tasmania ( Watson and Vervoort, 2001).

Remarks. The material conforms exactly with the description and dimensions of Gymnangium japonicum Watson and Vervoort, 2001 reported from deep water seamounts south-east of Tasmania. The stem is golden brown, hydrocladia yellowish-green.

TM

Teylers Museum, Paleontologische

NMV

Museum Victoria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Leptothecata

Family

Aglaopheniidae

Genus

Gymnangium

Loc

Gymnangium japonicum Watson and Vervoort

Watson, Jeanette W. 2003
2003
Loc

Gymnangium japonicum

Watson, J. E. & Vervoort, W. 2001: 182
2001
Loc

Halicetta sp.

Hirohito, Emperor of & Japan 1995: 293
1995
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