Filellum adhaerens Nutting 1901 ...

• Main Authors: Marques, Antonio C., Peña, Álvaro L., Miranda, Thaís P., Migotto, Alvaro E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Lafoeidae; Filellum; Filellum adhaerens; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6190982; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6190982

Filellum adhaerens (Nutting, 1901) (Figures 1 A–E) Lafoea adhaerens Nutting, 1901: 178, pl. 21, figs. 3–4. Filellum adherens: Peña Cantero et al. 1998: 299 –230. Type series. Neotype— Lafoea adhaerens Nutting, 1901, former University of California no. 5245 (Nutting 1901 and specimen’s label) (USNM 43728). Type locality. From the neotype, Harriman Expedition 1899, Kodiak Harbor, Alaska, epibiotic on Abietinaria turgida (Clark, 1876). The data coincide with those of the original description. Material examined. Neotype USNM 43728. Description of neotype. Colony stolonal, growing on stem and branches of Abietinaria turgida (Clark, 1876), arising from a creeping filiform, though flattened, hydrorhiza, 0.07–0.08 mm wide; hydrorhizal tubes and hydrothecae covered by a thin sheath (possibly produced by the host), with anastomosed perisarc, forming a tight mesh with no free space left in some parts of the sertulariid substrate. Hydrothecae sessile, arising with no definite pattern from hydrorhiza, varying in form, ... : Published as part of Marques, Antonio C., Peña, Álvaro L., Miranda, Thaís P. & Migotto, Alvaro E., 2011, Revision of the genus Filellum Hincks, 1868 (Lafoeidae, Leptothecata, Hydrozoa), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 3129 on pages 5-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206783 ...