Gymnangium ascidioides ( Bale, 1882 )

Watson, Jeanette E., 2018, Some Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Great Australian Bight in the collection of the South Australian Museum, Zootaxa 4410 (1), pp. 1-34 : 22

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5979088
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scientific name	Gymnangium ascidioides ( Bale, 1882 )
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Gymnangium ascidioides ( Bale, 1882) View in CoL

Aglaophenia ascidioides Bale, 1882: 20 View in CoL , pl. 13, fig. 4.

Halicornaria ascidioides .— Bartlett, 1907: 43. — Jäderholm, 1917: 21, pl. 2, fig. 13. — Briggs, 1918: 34, 43, pl. 6, fig. 3. — Bedot, 1921: 346.— Shepherd & Watson, 1970: 140.— Watson, 1994: 67.

Gymnangium ascidioides View in CoL .—Watson, 2003: 254. — Watson, 2005: 568, fig. 26 A–D.

Material examined. Preserved material (no slides prepared). PIRSA Stn QMP2.

Comment. One colony of short pinnate stems and hydrothecae with deeply cuspate margin. The species is described and figured by Watson (2005). The deep reddish brown colour of the colony is distinctive. Distribution. Southern Australia.