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Eudendrium klausi (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), a new species of hydroid from Belize

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2005

Stefania Puce ,
Carlo Cerrano ,
Antonio C. Marques  and
Giorgio Bavestrello
Stefania Puce
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, I-60131 Ancona, Italy
Carlo Cerrano
Affiliation:
Dip.Te.Ris., Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, I-16132 Genova, Italy
Antonio C. Marques
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 11461, 05422-970, São Paulo, Brazil
Giorgio Bavestrello
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, I-60131 Ancona, Italy
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Abstract

A new species of the cosmopolitan genus Eudendrium, E. klausi, is described from Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. The species is characterized by a small colony with an intense blue colour, polyps armoured with large microbasic euryteles scattered on the hydranth body, hypostome, and female spadix; female gonophores on normal hydranths with a reduced number of tentacles. The new species is compared to other Eudendrium with similar cnidome, and other Caribbean species, including those described by Allman (1877). Among the latter, E. gracile, E. laxum, E. attenuatum, and E. tenellum (sensu Allman) are considered as species inquirenda due to the lack or the unsuitability of the type materials and the inconclusive original descriptions. Eudendrium exiguum, E. eximium, and E. fruticosum were also studied and demonstrated to be different from E. klausi sp. nov.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 291 - 305
Copyright
2005 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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