Lytocarpia myriophylum ...

• Main Authors: Peña Cantero, Álvaro L., Horton, Tammy
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Aglaopheniidae; Lytocarpia; Lytocarpia myriophylum; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5248589; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5248589

Lytocarpia myriophylum (Linnaeus, 1758) (Fig. 7) Lytocarpia myriophylum— Ansín Agís et al., 2001: 88 –99, figs 40–45 (synonymy). Material examined. 10108#1, two delicate stems up to 40 mm high, no corbulae; 51401#1, a colony with four stems up to 170 mm high, no corbulae; 52026#1, fourteen stems up to 145 mm high, no corbulae. Description. Stems almost completely polysiphonic, unbranched, up to 170 mm high. Rhizoidal hydrorhiza consisting of a dense mass of fine stolons. Stem divided into large parts by very oblique nodes. Cauline main tube with strong septae. Stem provided with alternate short apophyses giving rise to hydrocladia. Each apophysis with two basal nematothecae (Fig. 7B). Stem with one or two nematothecae between apophyses. Hydrocladia unbranched and alternately arranged in two planes (angle up to 90°). Hydrocladial internodes with strong septae (Fig. 7C–D). Each internode with a hydrotheca and three sessile nematothecae (Fig. 7C–E): one mesial nematotheca adnate to abcauline hydrothecal wall, ... : Published as part of Peña Cantero, Álvaro L. & Horton, Tammy, 2017, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from bathyal and abyssal depths of the Northeast Atlantic held in the modern Discovery Collections, pp. 1-30 in Zootaxa 4347 (1) on pages 16-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044772 ...