Sertularella gayi Lamouroux 1821

• Main Author: Galea, Horia R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Sertularella; Sertularella gayi; Antarctic; Pacific; Tristan; Gough; Ritchie; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6210000; https://zenodo.org/record/6210000

Sertularella gayi (Lamouroux, 1821) (fig. 4 N, O) Sertularia Gayi Lamouroux, 1821: 12, pl. 66 figs 8–9. Sertularella gayi – Ramil et al ., 1992: 496, figs 1 A, 2–3. – Cornelius, 1995b: 71, fig. 16. Material examined. Stn. T10 , 15.ii.2005: one sterile colony, 5.5 cm high, with polysiphonic stem. Stn. T19 , 07.iii. 2005: one fragmentary colony, 6.5 cm high, polysiphonic basally, and a large, polysiphonic colony, 11 cm high (NHM 2009.21), both sterile. Distribution . Sterile specimens of this species, from off Gough Island (depth 183 m), were previously collected by the S.Y. Scotia (Ritchie 1907). This species is widely distributed in the Atlantic, though absent from Antarctic waters; also present in the northern Pacific (Vervoort & Watson 2003). : Published as part of Galea, Horia R., 2010, Notes on a small collection of thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Tristan da Cunha, south Atlantic, pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 2336 on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.205235