Halecium marsupiale Bergh 1887 ...

• Main Author: Calder, Dale R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Haleciidae; Halecium; Halecium marsupiale; Kara Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6016000; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6016000

Halecium marsupiale Bergh, 1887 Figs. 17 e, f Halecium marsupiale Bergh, 1887: 334, pl. 28, figs. 2a, b. Type locality. Russian Federation: Kara Sea, 20 fm (37 m) (Bergh 1887: 334). Material examined. NB: Passamaquoddy Bay, off the northwestern side of Deer Island, on Hydrallmania falcata in a lobster trap, 19.vi.1985, three colonies, up to 1 cm high, without gonophores, coll. D. Calder, ROMIZ B4132. Description. Hydroid colonies erect, up to about 1 cm high, arising from a creeping, smooth to somewhat wrinkled hydrorhiza. Hydrocaulus monosiphonic, unbranched or sparingly branched, annulated at insertion with hydrorhiza, divided into internodes of varying length by distinct nodes, older hydrocauli of larger plumes straight basally, with 1-4 internodes bearing neither branches nor hydrothecal pedicels, geniculate beyond basal region, with internodes annulated basally or throughout, annulations strongest over proximal end, each internode widening at distal end in form of a Y and bearing two apophyses, with one ... : Published as part of Calder, Dale R., 2017, Additions to the hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the Bay of Fundy, northeastern North America, with a checklist of species reported from the region, pp. 1-86 in Zootaxa 4256 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.556851 ...