Sertularella novarae Marktanner-Turneretscher 1890 ...

• Main Authors: Horia R. Galea, Dirk Schories, Verena Häussermann, Günter Försterra
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Sertularella; Sertularella novarae; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10362819; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10362819

Sertularella novarae Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890 Fig. 14 J-L; Table 19 Sertularella novarae Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890: 226, pl. 4 figs 3, 3A, 3B. – Bedot, 1916: 208. Sertularella polyzonias. – p.p. Vanhöffen, 1910: 322, fig. 39 [non S. polyzonias (Linnaeus, 1758)]. Material examined: ZMB Cni944; French Southern and Antarctic Lands, St. Paul I., coll. Deutsche Südpolar (Gauss) Expedition 1901-1903, stranded on beach; 26.03.1903; six stems and fragments, 0.5-1.4 cm high, of which four bear one gonotheca each [material studied by Vanhöffen (1910), as S. polyzonias]. Description: Upright, up to 2.5 cm high, monosiphonic, sparingly-branched stems arising from filamentous hydrorhiza; divided by faintly-indicated, oblique nodes into moderately-long, geniculate internodes with 1-2 basal twists and a hydrotheca distally; terminal stolonization occurs. Side branches arising irregularly from below the bases of stem hydrothecae, as well as from within their lumena; up to 2nd order branching, giving the colonies ... : Published as part of Horia R. Galea, Dirk Schories, Verena Häussermann & Günter Försterra, 2017, Taxonomic revision of the genus Sertularella (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from southern South America and the subantarctic, with descriptions of five new species, pp. 255-321 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (2) on pages 292-293, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.893519 ...