Diphasia tropica Nutting, 1904

Galea, Horia R., 2010, Additional shallow-water thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles, Zootaxa 2570, pp. 1-40 : 16

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.197380
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5630157
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D787AB-6C09-FFE9-FF62-C886A950BD12
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Diphasia tropica Nutting, 1904
status

Treatment

Diphasia tropica Nutting, 1904 View in CoL

(fig. 4J, K)

Diphasia tropica Nutting, 1904: 110 View in CoL , pl. 30 fig. 1.― Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen, 1965: 17, figs 1–5.

Material examined. Stn.13: 0 3.12.2009, 10–15 m—two small ( 1–2 mm high) sterile stems, on basal part of caulus of Thyroscyphus ramosus Allman, 1877 . Stn.15: 02.12.2009 —a single colony with stems to 4 mm high, some bearing gonothecae, on red algae caught by fishing nets presumably off Port-Louis, depth unknown.

Remarks. For synonymy and description, see Van Gemerden-Hoogeveen (1965).

Caribbean records. See Calder & Kirkendale (2005).

World distribution. Bahamas ( Nutting 1904), Brazil ( Vannucci 1949, as Diphasiella ornata ; Migotto 1996), Ghana ( Buchanan 1957).