Antennella secundaria ( Gmelin, 1791 )

Galea, Horia R., 2008, On a collection of shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles, Zootaxa 1878, pp. 1-54 : 39

Antennella secundaria ( Gmelin, 1791)

(fig. 7H–J, table 13)

Sertularia secundaria Gmelin, 1791: 3856 .

Antennella secundaria — Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen, 1965: 54, figs 29–31.—Millard, 1975: 332, fig. 107F–L.— Vervoort & Vasseur, 1977: 64, fig. 28.— Rees & Vervoort, 1987: 113, fig. 23A–B.— Ramil & Vervoort, 1992: 143, fig. 37A–D.— Cornelius, 1995b: 121, fig. 28A–C, E–G.—Hirohito, 1995: 236, fig. 79A–C.— Medel & Vervoort, 1995: 35, fig. 14.— Calder, 1997: 29, fig. 7.— Schuchert, 1997: 14, figs 3–4.– Ansín Agís et al., 2001: 140, fig. 63.— Watson, 2002: 346, fig. 5E–F.— Schuchert, 2003: 206, fig. 57.— Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 345, fig. 83J–L.

Material examined. Stn. 2: 26.01.2008 —one sterile colony, ca. 7.0 mm high, on sponge.

Type locality. Mediterranean Sea, no precise locality given.

Remarks. Though sterile, the present material could be securely identified by the presence of a single, median, axillar nematotheca behind the hydrotheca. The measurements are given in table 13. For recent descriptions, synonymy, and additional data on this species, see Schuchert (1997) and Ansín Agís et al. (2001).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan, with numerous records from temperate and warm-water localities ( Schuchert 1997). For the list of previous records, see Ansín Agís et al. (2001). The Caribbean records are summarized by Calder & Kirkendale (2005).