Hydrocorella africana Stechow, 1921

Ruthensteiner, Bernhard, Reinicke, Götz-Bodo & Straube, Nicolas, 2008, The Type Material of Hydrozoa described by Eberhard Stechow in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, add _ journal _ name _ here 31 (1), pp. 3-27 : 18

Hydrocorella africana Stechow, 1921

Stechow (1921c), Verh. Deutsch. Zool. Ges. 26, p. 29-30.

ZSM 20040157 growing on shell of the gastropod Melapium lineatum (Lamarck) with the hermit crab Diogenes breoirostris Stimpson in ethanol, South Africa, shallow water of the northern part of Agulhas Bank, 35°2.5'S, 19°58.5'E, depth 80 m, leg. “Valdivia”, station 96, 27.X.1898.

ZSM 20040153 growing on shells of the gastropod Nassa arcularia L. with the hermit crab Diogenes breoirostris Stimpson in ethanol, South Africa, Plettenberg Bay, shallow water in the northern part of Agulhas Bank, 34°7'S, 23°28'E, depth 100 m, leg. “Valdivia”, station 99, 28.X.1898.

ZSM 20040154 growing on shell of a gastropod with the hermit crab Diogenes breoirostris Stimpson in ethanol, ZSM 20040158 growing of five gastropod shells of the species the shells of the gastropods Nassa arcularia L., Melapium lineatum (Lamarck) and Olioancillaria auricularia L., ZSM 20000603-20000609 micro slides with colony parts, South Africa, Francis Bay, shallow water at the northern part of Agulhas Bank, 34°8.9'S, 24°59.3'E, depth 100 m, leg. “Valdivia”, station 100, 29.X.1898.

ZSM 20040155 growing on shell of the gastropod Cancellaria (semidisjuncta aff.) with the hermit crab Diogenes breoirostris Stimpson in ethanol, South Africa, south of Plettenberg Bay, 35°10.5'S, 230°2'E, depth 500 m, leg. “Valdivia”, station 103, 2.XI.1898. Note: The original description is a short notice only. A detailed redescription mostly based on type material is given by Stechow (1925a, p. 409-412).