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Obelia dichotoma

Description

Obelia dichotoma

(fig. 4H)

Sertularia dichotoma Linnaeus, 1758: 812.

Obelia dichotoma.— Hincks, 1868: 156 –157, pl. 28 figs 1, 1a–b.— Patriti, 1970: 36, fig. 45.—Cornelius, 1990: 550–555, figs. 2–3.— Ramil & Vervoort, 1992b: 243 –244, fig. 68c.— Cornelius, 1995b: 296 –300, fig. 69.— Medel & López-González, 1996.—206; Morri & Bianchi, 1999: 288.— Medel & Vervoort, 2000: 49 –53.—Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 2002: 161–162, fig. 31b–c.

Obelia dichotoma p.p. Cornelius, 1975a: 265 –272, figs. 3–4; 1982:117-1.

Material studied. Ormonde, stn 3: few scattered colonies, on Zonaria tournefortii, DBUA 1523.01. Ormonde, stn 4: abundant on tuff of algae, well-developed colonies, epibionts: small algae; DBUA 1523.02. Reported distribution. Eastern Atlantic.—Widespread from Iceland (Kramp 1938) to South Africa (Millard 1975). Herein reported for the first time in the Gorringe Bank.

Mediterranean.—Widespread (e.g. García-Corrales et al. 1978; Vervoort 1993; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002).

Elsewhere.—Eurybathic species, apparently with nearly worldwide distribution (e.g. Cornelius 1995b).

Notes

Published as part of Moura, Carlos J., 2015, The hydrozoan fauna (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the peaks of the Ormonde and Gettysburg seamounts (Gorringe Bank, NE Atlantic), pp. 148-180 in Zootaxa 3972 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/237108

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Campanulariidae
Genus
Obelia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Species
dichotoma
Taxon rank
species

References

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  • Hincks, T. (1868) A history of the British hydroid zoophytes. London. John van Voorst, 1, i - lxviii, 1 - 338.
  • Patriti, G. (1970) Catalogue des cnidaires et ctenaires des cotes Atlantiques marocaines. Travaux de l'Institut Scientifique Cherifien, Faculte de Sciences, Zoologie, 35, 1 - 149.
  • Ramil, F. & Vervoort, W. (1992 b) Report on the Hydroida collected by the`BALGIM' expedition in and around the Strait of Gibraltar. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 277, 3 - 262.
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