Obelia bidentata Clark, 1875

Galea, Horia R., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter, 2009, New additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the fjords region of southern Chile, Zootaxa 2019, pp. 1-28 : 23-24

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.186052

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6212466

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Obelia bidentata Clark, 1875
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Obelia bidentata Clark, 1875 View in CoL

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Material examined. Stn. 8 – 23.02.2008, 26 m, A565: several stems, ca. 5 mm high, epizoic on Symplectoscyphus milneanus (d’Orbigny, 1846) ; A566: a small, sterile colony, epizoic on Synthecium robustum Nutting, 1904 ; A580 ( MHNG INVE 62830): a few sterile stems, epizoic on S. milneanus . Type locality. Long Island, Atlantic coast of the United States of America.

Remarks. For a description of this well-known species, I refer to Cornelius (1995).

World distribution. Likely cosmopolitan. For a detailed list of world records, see Medel & Vervoort (2000). Peña Cantero (2008) gave its distribution in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters.

Records from Chile. Gente Grande and Paso Ancho, Strait of Magellan (Orejas, unpublished results, see Pagès & Orejas 1999), South of Chiloé Island (present study).

MHNG

Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Leptothecata

Family

Campanulariidae

Genus

Obelia

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