Plumularia setacea Linnaeus 1758
- Dataset
- Plumularioid hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off New Caledonia collected during KANACONO and KANADEEP expeditions of the French Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos Program
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Plumulariidae
- genus
- Plumularia
- species
- Plumularia setacea
description
Fig. 8 G
distribution
Distribution Nearly cosmopolitan (Schuchert 2013), except for Arctic and Antarctic waters. According to Schuchert (2014), the taxon could be regarded as either a multitude of cryptic, geographically delimited lineages, or as a species with an extensive population subdivision.
materials_examined
Material examined PACIFIC OCEAN • 2 cormoids, ca 3.5 cm high, one of them with ♀ gonothecae; off New Caledonia, stn DW 4670; 22 ° 58 ′ S, 167 ° 24 ′ E; 680 – 612 m; 12 Aug. 2016; KANACONO leg.; MNHN-IK- 2015 - 594.
Name
- Homonyms
- Plumularia setacea Linnaeus 1758