Lobataria, Watson, 2008

Watson, Jeanette E., 2008, Lobataria newtoni gen. et sp. nov., (Hydrozoa, Anthoathecata, Tubulariidae) from southern Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 179-184 : 179-180

Lobataria gen. nov.

Diagnosis. Hydroid solitary, hydrorhiza a tubular stolon, hydrocaulus long, widening in diameter from base to distal end, inner lumen filled with parenchyme, without endodermal canals or longitudinal ridges, perisarc thin around neck, secreted from a groove between hydranth base and neck; hydranth vasiform with one whorl of filiform aboral tentacles continuing over hydranth base, and two whorls of filiform oral tentacles. Blastostyle unbranched, gonophores sessile cryptomedusoid with distal process and large lobate apical flanges; actinula larva released from gonophore.

Etymology. The genus is named for the conspicuous apical lobes of the gonophore.