Plumularia flabellum Allman 1883 ...

• Main Authors: Agís, José Ansín, Ramil, Fran, Calder, Dale R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Plumulariidae; Plumularia; Plumularia flabellum; Pacific; Marion Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5684345; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5684345

Plumularia flabellum Allman, 1883 (Fig. 12; Table 6) Plumularia flabellum Allman, 1883: 19, pl. I, figs 1‒4; Stechow, 1 923: 225. Plumularia insignis flabellum: Billard, 1908: 759. Plumularia insignis var. flabellum: Billard, 1910: 34, fig. 15; Van Praët, 1979: 925. Material examined. Plumularia flabellum : fragments of type material at the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, Challenger Expedition, Marion Island (South Africa), 91–137 m, 26-12-1883, MNHN-IK-2012- 16034, two slides: L. 1251. Two hydrocladia. L. 1282. Fragment 15 mm long, polysiphonic over basal half; nematothecae on secondary tubes. Distribution. Plumularia flabellum is known only from its type locality of Marion Island (South Africa), at depths between 91 and 137 m. Description. Fragment polysiphonic along basal part. Main tube segmented, with internodes separated by transverse nodes; each axial internode with two apophyses bearing hydrocladia, one in mid-region and another just under distal node, and two nematothecae, one just ... : Published as part of Agís, José Ansín, Ramil, Fran & Calder, Dale R., 2016, One new genus and three new species of plumulariid hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Plumulariidae) from the western Pacific Ocean, with a re-examination of Plumularia insignis Allman, 1883 and related taxa, pp. 57-86 in Zootaxa 4169 (1) on pages 77-79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/263049 ...