Halopteris diaphana Heller 1868

• Main Author: Galea, Horia R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Halopterididae; Halopteris; Halopteris diaphana; Antarctic; Pena; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3509088; https://zenodo.org/record/3509088

Halopteris diaphana (Heller, 1868) (fig. 8 E) Anisocalix diaphanus Heller, 1868: 42, pl. 2 fig. 5. Halopteris diaphana — Schuchert, 1997: 47, fig. 15.— Ansín Agís et al ., 2001: 163, fig. 69.— Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 2002: 102, fig. 19 A–D. Halopteris constricta — Migotto, 1996: 44, fig. 9 A–C (not Halopteris constricta Totton, 1930: 217, fig. 56 A). Material examined . Stn. 3 : 01.04.2008 —a few sterile stems, up to 8 mm high, on concretions. Stn. 7 : 27.03.2008 —a few sterile colonies, up to 6 mm high, with both Antennella -like and pinnate stems, on algae and concretions. Type locality . Capocesto, Croatia, Mediterranean. Remarks . Though sterile, this species is recognizable by the heteromerous segmentation of the stem, the presence of generally 2 (rarely 3) nematothecae on cauline segments, and the occurence of Antennella -like stems in some colonies, as for instance those observed in the material from Stn. 7. For a complete description of H. diaphana and its synonymy, see Schuchert (1997). Distribution . Circumtropical (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002). For a detailed list of records, see Ansín Agís et al . (2001). : Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2008, On a collection of shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes, French Lesser Antilles, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 1878 on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184149 : {"references": ["Heller, C. (1868) Die zoophyten und Echinodermen des Adriatischen Meeres. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 18, 1 - 88.", "Schuchert, P. (1997) Review of the family Halopterididae. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 309, 1 - 162.", "Ansin Agis, J., Ramil, F. & Vervoort, W. (2001) Atlantic Leptolida (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) of the families Aglaopheniidae, Halopterididae, Kirchenpaueriidae and Plumulariidae collected during the CANCAP and Mauritania-II expeditions of the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, the Netherlands. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 333, 1 - 268.", "Pena Cantero, A. L. & Garcia Carrascosa, A. M. (2002) The benthic hydroid fauna of the Chafarinas islands (Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 337, 1 - 180.", "Migotto, A. E. (1996) Benthic shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the coast of Sao Sebastiao, Brazil, including a checklist of Brazilian hydroids. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 306, 1 - 125.", "Totton, A. K. (1930) Hydroida. Natural History Reports of the British Antarctic (' Terra Nova') Expedition 1910, 5, 131 - 252."]}