Salacia sinuosa ( Bale, 1888 )

Galea, Horia R. & Schuchert, Peter, 2019, Some thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off New Caledonia collected during KANACONO and KANADEEP expeditions of the French Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos Program, European Journal of Taxonomy 562, pp. 1-70 : 34-35

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.562

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3475327

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scientific name

Salacia sinuosa ( Bale, 1888 )
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Salacia sinuosa ( Bale, 1888) View in CoL

Fig. 13 View Fig

Salacia sinuosa – Schuchert 2003: 180 View in CoL , fig. 36.

Material examined

PACIFIC OCEAN • a 20.5 cm high, sparingly-branched colony, and the upper part of a colony, 14 × 11 cm, both without gonothecae; off New Caledonia, stn DW4741; 22°52′ S, 167°41′ E; 210 m; 23 Aug. 2016; KANACONO leg.; MNHN-IK-2015-476 GoogleMaps a fertile colony, 25 × 17 cm; same collecting data as for preceding; a fragment was removed for DNA extraction, DNA 1375 ; voucher MHNG-INVE-120836; MNHN-IK-2015-476 GoogleMaps upper part of a large colony, 25 × 14 cm, without gonothecae; off New Caledonia, stn DW4776; 23°02′ S, 168°16′ E; 180–311 m; 28 Aug. 2016; KANACONO leg.; MNHN-IK-2015-477 GoogleMaps .

Remarks

Unlike stated by Watson (2000), the gonothecae in the present material are provided with a short, tubular pedicel.

Distribution

Australia, Tasmania, Indonesia ( Watson 2000), off New Caledonia (present study).

Bale W. M. 1888. On some new and rare Hydroida in the Australian Museum collection. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 (3) 2: 745 - 799. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 26267

Schuchert P. 2003. Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the Danish expedition to the Kei Islands. Steenstrupia 27 (2): 137 - 256.

Watson J. E. 2000. Hydroids (Hydrozoa: Leptothecata) from the Beagle Gulf and Darwin Harbour, northern Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 16: 1 - 82.

Gallery Image

Fig. 13. Salacia sinuosa (Bale, 1888). A–C. Portion of stem with insertion of two consecutive cladia (A), axillar stem hydrotheca and basal portion of cladium (B), gonotheca (C), all from sample MNHN- IK-2015-476. Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B–C = 500 µm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

SubClass

Hydroidolina

Order

Leptothecata

Family

Sertulariidae

Genus

Salacia