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148<br />

Type locality: Murray Island, Torres Strait, Australia,<br />

27–37 m.<br />

Pteroclava crassa (Pictet, 1893)<br />

Syncoryne crassa Pictet, 1893: 8, pl. 1: figs 3–4. – Boero,<br />

Bouillon & Gravier-Bonnet 1995: 71.<br />

Remarks<br />

No new material <strong>of</strong> this species could be obtained.<br />

Examination <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> type material <strong>of</strong><br />

Syncoryne crassa Pictet, 1893 (MHNG INVE<br />

25777) showed that it has moniliform tentacles<br />

and thus conforms <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> genus Pteroclava (see<br />

Boero, Bouillon & Gravier-Bonnet 1995). Additionally,<br />

<strong>the</strong> few gonophores present revealed<br />

that <strong>the</strong>y must develop in<strong>to</strong> medusae with only<br />

two tentacle bulbs. The material strongly resembles<br />

Pteroclava krempfi (Billard, 1919a). However,<br />

Pteroclava krempfi is only known <strong>to</strong> occur<br />

on Oc<strong>to</strong>corallia while Pteroclava crassa was<br />

found on <strong>the</strong> hydrorhiza <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> hydroid Macrorhynchia<br />

philippina. Boero, Bouillon & Gravier-<br />

Bonnet (1995) regarded <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong>refore as separate<br />

species.<br />

Family Pennariidae<br />

Pennaria disticha Goldfuss, 1820<br />

Pennaria disticha Goldfuss, 1820: 89. – Brinckmann-Voss<br />

1970: 40, text-figs 43, 45–50. – Gibbons & Ryland 1989:<br />

387, fig. 5. – Schuchert 1996: 142, fig. 85a–c. – Migot<strong>to</strong><br />

1996: 25.<br />

Pennaria Cavolinii Ehrenberg, 1834: 297. – Pictet 1893: 12,<br />

pl. 1: figs 7–9. – von Campenhausen 1896b: 307. –<br />

Weltner 1900: 585.<br />

Pennaria australis Bale, 1884: 45.<br />

Halocordyle disticha var. australis. – Vervoort 1941: 192.<br />

Halocordyle disticha. – Millard 1975: 41, figs 16C–G. –<br />

Garcia-Corrales & Aguirre 1985: 85, figs 1–3, synonymy.<br />

– Calder 1988: 57, figs 43–45, synonymy. – Östman<br />

et al.1991: 607, figs 1–18. – Hirohi<strong>to</strong> 1988: 28, fig. 9a–<br />

d, pl. 1: fig. C.<br />

Material examined:<br />

Kei Islands Expedition stations 11. – 104, fertile. – 116. –<br />

Kei Islands Expedition, Moluccas, Ambon, pier <strong>of</strong> harbour,<br />

1 m, 28.02.1922, well preserved and fertile. – MHNG INVE<br />

31269, Bay <strong>of</strong> Ambon, material <strong>of</strong> Pictet (1893), jar labelled<br />

Dendroclava Dohrni, collected 15 Jul–12 Aug 1890, with<br />

mature medusoids. – MHNG INVE 29809, Mediterranean,<br />

Mallorca, Cala Murada, 1 m, coll. 24 Aug 2000.<br />

Diagnosis<br />

Anthoa<strong>the</strong>cata Capitata with hydroid phase<br />

P. SCHUCHERT<br />

forming erect, pinnately branched stems, height<br />

10 cm and more, hydranths on upper side <strong>of</strong><br />

branches, pedicellate, body pear-shaped, one<br />

aboral whorl <strong>of</strong> filiform tentacles and distal <strong>to</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m scattered capitate tentacles. Gonophores<br />

oblong medusoids without tentacles, short-lived,<br />

released with mature gonads.<br />

Remarks<br />

This characteristic and well known species needs<br />

no special comments. Its synonymy is well<br />

known and <strong>the</strong>re were no significant differences<br />

between <strong>the</strong> Pacific and Mediterranean material.<br />

According <strong>to</strong> current usage, <strong>the</strong> genus name<br />

Pennaria is preferred over Halocordyle (see<br />

Schuchert 1996).<br />

Distribution<br />

Circumglobal in tropical <strong>to</strong> warm-temperate waters.<br />

Type locality: Gulf <strong>of</strong> Naples, Mediterranean.<br />

Fig. 8. Solanderia secunda (Inaba, 1892). A. Colony silhouette.<br />

B. Skele<strong>to</strong>n <strong>of</strong> terminal branch with triangular<br />

hydrophores. – Scales: A = 3 cm; B = 0.2 cm.

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