Leuckartiara acuta (Hydrozoa, Anthoathecatae, Pandeidae), a New Species from the Pacific

• Main Authors: Brinckmann-Voss, Anita, Arai, Mary Needler, Nagasawa, Kazuya
• Other Authors: ナガサワ, カズヤ
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University 2005
• Subjects: 468.8; Pacific; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/176325

Leuckartiara acuta sp. nov., family Pandeidae (Anthoathecatae, Hydrozoa) has been collected during surveys of epipelagic salmon habitat in the northern Subtropical Region and the Transitional Domain of the Subarctic Region of the North Pacific. It is characterized by a tall, pointed, narrow, apical projection, four perradial tentacles and two or three tentaculae in each quadrant. Reexamination of specimens recorded from the Subtropical Region of the central North Pacific by Kramp (1965) as L. gardineri shows that these specimens also belong to the new species.