Sphaeronectes gamulini Carré, 1966

P. R. Pugh, 2009, A review of the family Sphaeronectidae (Class Hydrozoa, Order Siphonophora), with the description of three new species, Zootaxa 2147, pp. 1-48 : 48

Sphaeronectes gamulini Carré, 1966 (See Figures 16 & 17)

Sphaeronectes gamulini Carré, 1966, p. 1070 , fig. 1, Pl. 1; 1968c, p. 91, Pl. 1, figs. 5–6, Pl 2, fig. 7; Palma, 1984, p. 83, fig. 1; Gamulin & Kršinić, 2000, p. 134, fig. 84; Bouillon et al. 2004, p. 230, fig. 142A–D.

Distribution: Sphaeronectes gamulini was originally described by C. Carré (1966) from specimens caught in the entrance to the Rade Villefranche-sur-Mer in non-closing nets fished at 50 m or between 50 and 100 m. It has also been found elsewhere in the western Mediterranean by Specchi et al. (1976) [off Sardinia], Ianora & Scotto di Carlo (1981) [Bay of Naples], and Dallot et al. (1988) [Alborán Sea]. In the eastern Mediterranean it has been found often in the Adriatic Sea by Rottini & Gamulin (1969), Batistić et al. (2004), Gamulin (1979), and in all the relevant papers quoted below for S. fragilis , except for Gamulin (1977). It has also been found off Chile by Palma (1984), who gave a further description of both the polygastric and eudoxid stages, and by Apablaza & Palma (2006).