Bougainvillia aberrans (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), a new species of hydroid and medusa from the upper bathyal zone off Bermuda

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Author: Calder, Dale R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1993
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Medusa; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z93-132; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z93-132

Bougainvillia aberrans n.sp. is described from Bermuda in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Specimens were collected at a depth of 150 fathoms (274 m) from the polypropylene buoy line of a crab trap. The hydroid colony of B. aberrans is erect, with a polysiphonic hydrocaulus, a smooth to somewhat wr...