Obelia bidentata Clarke 1875

• Main Author: Watson, Jeanette E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Campanulariidae; Obelia; Obelia bidentata; Bismarck; Flinders; Izquierdo; Medusa; New Zealand; Queensland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3512215; https://zenodo.org/record/3512215

Obelia bidentata Clarke, 1875 Fig. 12 A,B Obelia bidentata Clarke, 1875: 58, pl. 9, fig. 2.– Cornelius, 1975: 260, fig. 2.– Millard, 1978: 195.– Millard, 1980: 131.– Cornelius, 1983: 155, fig. 1.– Cornelius, 1982: 113.– Bouillon, 1984: 108.– Izquierdo, García-Corrales & Bacallado, 1986: 91, fig. 8.– Calder, 1991 a: 70, fig. 37. Calder, 1991 b: 2068.– Ramil & Vervoort, 1992: 241, fig. 68 b.– Cornelius, 1992: 254.– Boero & Bouillon, 1993: 265.– Calder, 1993: 68.– Cornelius, 1999: 6.– Medel & Vervoort, 2000: 46, fig. 12.– Watson, 1994: 67.– Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 424, fig. 103 F. – Galea, 2009: 23, fig. 5 G.– Galea, 2010 a: 9, fig. 2 I. Obelia spinulosa Bale, 1888: 756, pl. 12, figs 5–7. Material examined. NMV F 171369, microslide, colony from hull of boat, Western Port, Victoria, coll: J. Watson, 20 /09/ 1970. Material in author’s collection : McLure reef, Queensland, coll: L. Zann 13 / 8 / 1972, no depth data. Flinders Islet, Port Kembla New South Wales, on alga Zonaria, depth 12 m, coll: J. Watson, September, 1976. Port Kembla Harbour, New South Wales, on Styela plicata , coll: J. Watson, February, 1991. Description. Colonies infertile. Hydrorhiza reptant on substrate, stolons tubular, crumpled, perisarc thin. Young stems monosiphonic, older stems polysiphonic, branched, branching opposite in distal part of colony. Stem internodes long, cylindrical with 3–5 proximal annulations. Hydrothecae terminal on pedicels of variable length, annulated throughout, a thickening of internode at junction of stem and pedicel. Hydrotheca conical, walls smooth, expanding evenly from base to margin, basal chamber distinct, rectangular to quadrangular, merging smoothly into hydrotheca, distal wall of basal chamber transverse to slightly concave. Margin of hydrotheca dentate with c. 16 sharp cusps separated by shallow embayments. Hydranth with c. 12 long, thin tentacles. Remarks. Bale (1888) was uncertain whether the species he described as Obelia spinulosa may in fact be Obelia bidentata but kept them separate because O. bidentata is polysiphonic and known to grow to a height of 15 cm whereas his specimen was monosiphonic (although his figure shows incipient fasciculation) and was less than 12 mm in height. His material was probably a young colony of O. bidentata . While most colonies in the present collection are also small and monosiphonic, a colony from Western Port, Victoria was 20 mm high eight weeks after larval settlement, the stem by then having four polysiphonic tubes. The species seems to be somewhat variable and although widely distributed in southern and southeastern Australia there are too few records of fresh material for a detailed overview including that of the cnidome. Distribution. O. bidentata is distributed world-wide. The present records extend its range from southern Australia to southern Queensland. 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