Gonaxia ampullacea Vervoort, 1993

Figs 2B, 3 C–D

Gonaxia ampullacea Vervoort, 1993: 121, figs 6c, 7a–c, 9.

Material examined

BATHUS 4: DW914, a 3.5 cm high colony with unbranched stem, bearing male gonothecae (MNHN- IK- 2012 -16522).

Remarks

As stated above, the larger size and the more acute angle formed by the free part of the hydrocladial hydrothecae with the axis of cladia were used to assign this material to G. ampullacea . As in G. amphorifera, some hydrothecae exhibit incipient lateral diverticuli (Fig. 3C).

Geographical distribution

New Caledonia (Vervoort 1993; present study).