identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
038987F2FF9AFF952FCAB8DDFE75FED6.text	038987F2FF9AFF952FCAB8DDFE75FED6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bimeria vestita Wright 1859	<div><p>Bimeria vestita Wright, 1859</p><p>Figs. 1A–H</p><p>Material examined.   LACM-AHF 1576 a, Panama, Gulf of Chiriquí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-82.00083&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=7.9652777" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -82.00083/lat 7.9652777)">Secas Islands</a>, 7°57’55’’N 82°00’3’’W, 45 m, R / V Velero III, Sta. 250-34, February 22, 1934, on the 5 th right anterior scale of  Pelogenia fimbriata, the fertile colony was 1 mm above the dorsal line of the worm and extended to the lateral sides of the scale about 0.5 mm; proximally, over posterior scales and the dorsal midline, distally, right above the chaetae.</p><p>Description. Mature colony small (1.5 mm high), stolonal, monosiphonic, arising from creeping tubular stolons (Figs. 1A–E). Bilayered exoskeleton formed by perisarc and exosarc. Perisarc continuous from hydrorhiza to tentacle base unwrinkled at the base of hydrocaulus. Exosarc thin, thinner over hydranth, tentacle base, and hypostome, forming a pseudohydrotheca (Figs. 1D, F, H). Hydranth vasiform, merging with short pedicel. Hypostome conical, 10–12 tentacles in two very close whorls (Fig. 1F). Gonophore fixed sporosac on hydrorhiza, pedicellate, ovoid, without radial canals, enveloped in the thin exoskeleton (Fig. 1E). Nematocysts of tentacles: microbasic eurytele and desmoneme (Fig. 1G).</p><p>Distribution. Circumglobal in temperate and tropical waters (Calder 2013). Records in the Eastern Pacific Ocean are restricted to Mexico and Panama (Fraser 1938a, 1938b; Mendoza-Becerril et al. 2020).</p><p>Remarks. See Calder (1988) and Schuchert (2007) for taxonomic details and synonyms of this species. There are currently five species of the genus  Bimeria (WoRMS 2024) . The species  B. vestita is distinguished from the remainder of the genus species by the proximal part of its tentacles being ensheathed with an exoskeleton (Calder 1988; Schuchert 2007).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038987F2FF9AFF952FCAB8DDFE75FED6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Cruz-Gómez, Christopher;Mendoza-Becerril, María A.	Cruz-Gómez, Christopher, Mendoza-Becerril, María A. (2025): First record of a hydrozoan (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) growing on a sigalionid scaleworm (Annelida, Sigalionidae). Zootaxa 5570 (2): 387-393, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5570.2.10, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5570.2.10
