Clytia gracilis (Sars, 1850)

Gil, Marta & Ramil, Fran, 2021, Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Vema and Valdivia seamounts (SE Atlantic), European Journal of Taxonomy 758, pp. 49-96 : 65

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.758.1425
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7CA6D8AC-2312-47F9-8C17-528B94E4C8A7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5088930
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EB6F5251-FFA2-FF8B-ED5E-FB6530AAF99F
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Clytia gracilis (Sars, 1850)
status

Treatment

Clytia gracilis (Sars, 1850) View in CoL

Laomedea gracilis Sars, 1851: 138 View in CoL .

Clytia gracilis View in CoL – Ramil & Vervoort 1992: 235–238, fig. 67a. — Cornelius 1995: 246–248, fig. 56.

Material examined

SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN • 1 colony, growing on Campanularia hincksii , without gonothecae; Vema Seamount , stn Dive 3; 71–935 m depth; 31 Jan. 2015; SEAFO-2015 leg.; SEAFO-2015-40132.

Distribution

Clytia gracilis is a circumglobal species in temperate and tropical waters, widely distributed in the East Atlantic, from England to South Africa (Gil 2017). Its bathymetric distribution ranges from 0 ( Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002) to 1443 m ( Schuchert 2001a).