Obelia dichotoma
- Dataset
- The hydrozoan fauna (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the peaks of the Ormonde and Gettysburg seamounts (Gorringe Bank, NE Atlantic)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Campanulariidae
- genus
- Obelia
- species
- Obelia dichotoma
materials_examined
Material studied. Ormonde, stn 3: few scattered colonies, on Zonaria tournefortii, DBUA 1523.01. Ormonde, stn 4: abundant on tuff of algae, well-developed colonies, epibionts: small algae; DBUA 1523.02. Reported distribution. Eastern Atlantic. — Widespread from Iceland (Kramp 1938) to South Africa (Millard 1975). Herein reported for the first time in the Gorringe Bank. Mediterranean. — Widespread (e. g. García-Corrales et al. 1978; Vervoort 1993; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002). Elsewhere. — Eurybathic species, apparently with nearly worldwide distribution (e. g. Cornelius 1995 b).
Name
- Homonyms
- Obelia dichotoma