Amphinema, Haeckel, 1879

Calder, Dale R., 2019, On a collection of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the southwest coast of Florida, USA, Zootaxa 4689 (1), pp. 1-141 : 23-24

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4689.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4581835

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scientific name

Amphinema
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Amphinema View in CoL sp.

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Material examined. Naples ( FL), Doctors Pass, north jetty, channel side, on stolonal bryozoan on boulder,

26°10’29.14”N, 81°48’53.45”W, ELWS, 06 December 2017, one stolonal colony, 2 mm high, without gonophores, coll. D. Calder, ROMIZ B4337 GoogleMaps .— Captiva Island , Turner Beach, on jetty , 26°28’57.3”N, 82°11’02.8”W, on rocks at low tide, 01 March 2018, several colony fragments, up to 4 mm high, without gonophores, coll. D. Calder, ROMIZ B4338 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. While these hydroids have been assigned to Amphinema Haeckel, 1879 (family Pandeidae Haeckel, 1879 ), no gonophores were present in the examined specimens. Their trophosomes resemble those of species such as A. dinema ( Péron & Lesueur, 1810) and A. rugosum ( Mayer, 1900a) , whose medusa stages have been reported from the southeastern Gulf of Mexico ( Mayer 1910a; Segura-Puertas et al. 2009), but these sterile specimens cannot be confirmed as conspecific with either one from current evidence. The cnidome comprised the usual categories of nematocysts found in pandeids and bougainvilliids, namely desmonemes (3.2 – 3.8 long x 1.7 – 2.2 μm wide, undischarged, n=10, ROMIZ B4338) and microbasic euryteles (6.2 – 7.1 long x 1.9 – 2.2 μm wide, undischarged, n=10, ROMIZ B4338). In size and shape, the euryteles approached those of A. dinema ( Péron & Lesueur, 1810) as described by Russell (1938), and those of both A. dinema and A. rugosum as described by Schuchert (1996). Most notably, they were longer and much more slender than those of the bougainvilliid Bougainvillia rugosa from the study area. Nevertheless, life cycle or molecular studies of conspecifics from the study area are needed to resolve the specific identity of this hydrozoan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

SubClass

Hydroidolina

Order

Anthoathecata

Family

Pandeidae

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