Sertularella areyi Nutting 1904

• Main Author: Galea, Horia R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Sertularella; Sertularella areyi; Pacific; New Zealand; Medusa; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3853796; https://zenodo.org/record/3853796

Sertularella areyi Nutting, 1904 Fig. 7J Sertularella areyi Nutting, 1904: 83, pl. 17, fig. 6. Sertularella areyi – Vervoort & Watson 2003: 156, fig. 35f–l. Material examined MUSORSTOM 4: Stn. CC 174, several stems, up to 1.4 cm high, all but one sterile (MNHN- IK-2012-16555). BATHUS 3: Stn. CP813, fertile colonies with stems up to 1.4 cm high on two fragments of gorgonian (MNHN-IK-2012-16556); Stn. CP814, two infertile colonies with stems up to 1.5 cm high, one on dead gorgonian, the other on sponge (MNHN-IK-2012-16557). LITHIST: Stn. DW13, small colony composed of a few sterile stems, up to 1.2 cm high, growing on Acryptolaria sp. (MNHN-IK-2012-16558). BORDAU 2: Stn. DW1513, small colony composed of several sterile, up to 5 mm high, stems growing on G. ceramensis (MNHN-IK-2012-16559). NORFOLK 1: Stn. DW1704, small colony composed of a restricted number of stems, some fertile and up to 1 cm high, epizoic on Zygophylax sp., Sertularella helenae Vervoort, 1993, and tube of coronate medusa (MNHN-IK-2012-16560). Remarks This very distinctive species needs no additional comments on morphology. Its synonymy, as well as a redescription, are provided by Vervoort & Watson (2003). Geographical distribution Tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific (Vervoort & Watson 2003). : Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2016, Notes on some sertulariid hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the tropical western Pacific, with descriptions of nine new species, pp. 1-52 in European Journal of Taxonomy 218 on page 24, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.218, http://zenodo.org/record/3840195 : {"references": ["Nutting C. C. 1904. American hydroids. Part II. The Sertularidae. Special Bulletin of the United States National Museum 4 (2): 1 - 325. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 1050964 [accessed 6 Jul. 2016]", "Vervoort W. & Watson J. E. 2003. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Leptothecata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) (thecate hydroids). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 119: 1 - 538.", "Watson J. E. 2003. Deep-water hydroids (Hydrozoa: Leptolida) from Macquarie Island. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 60 (2): 151 - 180.", "Vervoort W. 1993. Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Hydroida: Hydroids from the western Pacific (Philippines, Indonesia and New Caledonia) I. Sertulariidae (Part 1). In: Crosnier A. (ed.) Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 11. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle 158: 89 - 298, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris."]}