Schizotricha profunda ...

• Main Authors: Peña Cantero, Álvaro L., Horton, Tammy
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Halopterididae; Schizotricha; Schizotricha profunda; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5248591; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5248591

Schizotricha profunda (Nutting, 1900) (Fig. 8) Plumularia profunda Nutting, 1900: 66 –67, pl. 8 figs 2–3. Not Polyplumaria profunda — Broch, 1918: 60 –62, figs 28–29 [= Schizotricha variabilis (Bonnevie, 1899)]. Schizotricha profunda — Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 1999: 368 –371, fig. 3. Material examined. 54907#3, four stems up to 18 mm high, on coral, with gonothecae. Description. Stems polysiphonic, up to 18 mm high. Stem with alternately arranged cauline apophyses giving rise to hydrocladia (Fig. 8F). Stem divided into internodes with one to two cauline hydrothecae. Each at axil between cauline apophysis and internode and with three associated nematothecae (Fig. 8A–B): two flanking hydrothecal aperture and one under the hydrotheca. Cauline apophyses with one basal nematotheca (Fig. 8B). Hydrocladia unbranched, heteromerously divided into internodes with one or two hydrothecae. Each hydrocladial hydrotheca with three associated nematothecae (Fig. 8C–D): two flanking hydrothecal aperture and one ... : 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 page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1044772 ...