Salacia sinuosa ( Bale, 1888 )

Galea, Horia R. & Schuchert, Peter, 2019, Some thecate hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off New Caledonia collected during KANACONO and KANADEEP expeditions of the French Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos Program, European Journal of Taxonomy 562, pp. 1-70 : 34-35

Salacia sinuosa ( Bale, 1888)

Fig. 13

Salacia sinuosa – Schuchert 2003: 180 , fig. 36.

Material examined

PACIFIC OCEAN • a 20.5 cm high, sparingly-branched colony, and the upper part of a colony, 14 × 11 cm, both without gonothecae; off New Caledonia, stn DW4741; 22°52′ S, 167°41′ E; 210 m; 23 Aug. 2016; KANACONO leg.; MNHN-IK-2015-476 • a fertile colony, 25 × 17 cm; same collecting data as for preceding; a fragment was removed for DNA extraction, DNA 1375 ; voucher MHNG-INVE-120836; MNHN-IK-2015-476 • upper part of a large colony, 25 × 14 cm, without gonothecae; off New Caledonia, stn DW4776; 23°02′ S, 168°16′ E; 180–311 m; 28 Aug. 2016; KANACONO leg.; MNHN-IK-2015-477 .

Remarks

Unlike stated by Watson (2000), the gonothecae in the present material are provided with a short, tubular pedicel.

Distribution

Australia, Tasmania, Indonesia ( Watson 2000), off New Caledonia (present study).

Figures

Fig. 13. Salacia sinuosa (Bale, 1888). A–C. Portion of stem with insertion of two consecutive cladia (A), axillar stem hydrotheca and basal portion of cladium (B), gonotheca (C), all from sample MNHN- IK-2015-476. Scale bars: A = 1 mm; B–C = 500 µm.