Zygophylax niger Galea, 2019

Galea, Horia R., Maggioni, Davide & Galli, Paolo, 2022, On some species of Zygophylax Quelch, 1885 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Zygophylacidae) from off New Caledonia, Zootaxa 5214 (1), pp. 1-46 : 21

Zygophylax niger Galea (in Galea & Schuchert), 2019

( Fig. 25 ; Table 8 )

Zygophylax niger Galea (in Galea & Schuchert), 2019: 56, figs 16F–G, 19.

Material examined. MNHN-IK-2019-2091, KANACONO Stn. DW 4768: an originally 6.5 cm high, fertile colony, now broken into two pieces.—MNHN-IK-2019-2092, KANACONO Stn. DW 4744: three colonies, ca. 7.5 cm high, of which one bears many coppinia.—MNHN-IK-2019-2093, KANACONO Stn. DW 4776: three colonies, one 6.5 cm high and sterile, another one 11.5 cm high bearing a coppinia, and the last one 10.5 cm high bearing three coppiniae; GenBank: OP724378 .

Remarks. For the original account, refer to Galea & Schuchert (2019).

Distribution. Only known from off New Caledonia ( Galea & Schuchert 2019; present study).

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FIGURE 25. Phylogenetic hypothesis for the Zygophylaciidae based on the 16S rRNA gene. Numbers at nodes refer to support values of the maximum likelihood, Bayesian inference and maximum parsimony analyses, respectively, and are shown only when> 70 and 0.7. Sequences generated in this study are followed by voucher numbers.