Plumularia filicula Allman 1877

• Main Authors: Gil, Marta, Ramil, Fran, Agís, José Ansín
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Plumulariidae; Plumularia; Plumularia filicula; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4426162; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE879D1C39335846B2C0C6A3606A97

Plumularia filicula Allman, 1877 (Fig. 12D) Plumularia filicula Allman, 1877: 29–30, pl. XVIII, fig.1–2; Fraser, 1944: 344–345, pl. LXXIV, fig.332; Ramil & Vervoort, 1992: 183–186, fig. 47A–E. Plumularia cf filicula : Ansín Agís et al ., 2014: 804–806, fig. 8. Not Plumularia filicula : Hirohito, 1995: 275, fig. 94A; Vervoort & Watson, 2003: 393–394, fig. 95C–F. Material examined. MAURIT-0911, stn MUDR 01, 16º08´24”N, 16º57´12”W, 488 m, 5-XII-2009: 42 colonies, one colony growing on Nemertesia freiwaldi n. sp. , one on Lafoea gracillima , four on Aglaophenia lophocarpa one colony with gonothecae. MAURIT-0911, stn MUDR02, 16º08´50”N, 16º57´01”W, 462 m, 5-XII-2009: two colonies, without gonothecae. MAURIT-0911, stn MUDR07, 18º35´40”N, 16º43´12”W, 460 m, 12-XII-2009: two colonies, no gonothecae. MAURIT-1011, stn MUDR 20, 16º08´11”N, 16º56´08”W, 405 m, 7-XII-2010: eleven colonies, 18–22 mm high, two growing on Lophelia pertusa and one on Polyplumaria flabellata no gonothecae. MSM 16/3, stn GeoB 14886–1, ROV, 18°39.013’– 18°38.476’N, 16°43.580’– 16°43.757’W, 484–640 m, 12-XI- 2010: two colonies 7 mm high, one on Acesta excavata and one on Madrepora oculata no gonothecae. MSM 16 /3, stn GeoB 14903–1, GKG, 17°32.853’N, 16°39.700’W, 414 m, 15.XI.2010: one colony 24 mm high, growing on a sponge, without gonothecae. Biology. This species has been found growing on a polychaete tube (Ramil & Vervoort 1992). Fertile material has been collected in June (Allman 1877; Fraser 1944; Ramil & Vervoort 1992). The colonies studied by us were collected from different substrata, such as sponges, hydroids, the corals M. oculata and L. pertusa and the bivalve A. excavata . Gonothecae were recorded for the first time in December. Distribution. Plumularia filicula is an amphi-Atlantic species reported from the Ibero-Moroccan Gulf in the East and the coast of USA in the West Atlantic; records in the Pacific Ocean are considered dubious and need further confirmation (Ansín Agís et al . 2014). In West Africa, it was ...