Silicularia rosea Meyen 1834

• Main Author: Galea, Horia R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Campanulariidae; Silicularia; Silicularia rosea; Antarctic; Tristan; Gough; Ritchie; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6210010; https://zenodo.org/record/6210010

Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834 (fig. 5 D) Silicularia rosea Meyen, 1834: 204, pl. 35 figs 1 –11. – Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 442, fig. 108A–D. Material examined. Stn. T14 , 23.ii.2005: dense colonies, up to 5 mm high, bearing both male and female gonothecae, on Macrocystis pyrifera . Stn. T21 , 31.x.2007: two fertile colonies (male and female), ca . 5 mm high, on Macrocystis pyrifera (NHM 2009.26). Distribution . Previously recorded creeping on fronds of Macrocystis pyrifera from both Gough [Ritchie 1907, as S. hemisphaerica (Allman, 1888)] and Nightingale islands (Vanhöffen 1910, as S. rosea ). This species has a circumglobal distribution in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters (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 pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.205235