Cryptolaria pectinata
Creators: name: Calder, Dale R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Zygophylacidae
Cryptolaria
Cryptolaria pectinata

description: <i>Cryptolaria pectinata</i> (Allman, 1888) Fig. 5f <i>Perisiphonia pectinata</i> Allman, 1888: 45, pl. 21, figs. 2, 2a–b. <b>Type locality.</b> New Zealand: <i>Challenger</i> Station 169 (37°34’S, 179°22’E) (Allman 1888). <b>Voucher material.</b> Off St. Lucie Inlet, 27°11.8’N, 79°57.3’W, 87 m, 04.x.1986, <i>Johnson-Sea-Link</i>, J028/JSL 2132, one colony, 2.5 cm high, without coppiniae, coll. R. Roesch, ROMIZ B1120. <b>Remarks</b>. This species was first reported in the western Atlantic, as <i>Eucryptolaria pinnata</i> Fraser, 1938 (type locality: Galápagos Islands), by Fraser (1943). Following examination of its type material, <i>E. pinnata</i> was included in the synonymy of <i>Cryptolaria pectinata</i> (Allman, 1888) by Calder <i>et al</i>. (2009). The monotypic genus <i>Eucryptolaria</i> Fraser, 1938 had been referred earlier to <i>Cryptolaria</i> Busk, 1857 by Rees &amp; Vervoort (1987). Evidence from recent cladistic (Marques <i>et al</i>. 2006) and molecular (Moura <i>et al</i>. 2012) studies demonstrate that <i>Cryptolaria</i> should be assigned to the same family-group cluster as <i>Zygophylax</i> Quelch, 1885 and <i>Abietinella</i> Levinsen, 1913. Moura <i>et al</i>. also contended that Zygophylacinae Quelch, 1885, usually included as a subfamily within Lafoeidae A. Agassiz, 1865 for this group of genera, merited recognition as a distinct family. Their recommendation is adopted here. Moreover, they also found evidence of cryptic diversity within eastern Atlantic populations of <i>Cryptolaria pectinata</i>. Comparisons of hydroids assigned to <i>C. pectinata</i> from the western Atlantic with those from the type locality of New Zealand, and elsewhere, appear warranted. The hydroid examined here was collected at a depth of 87 m near the edge of the continental shelf, east of St. Lucie Inlet. No coenosarc or hydranths were present, and the colony appeared to be recently dead. <b>Reported distribution.</b> Atlantic coast of Florida. First record. Western Atlantic. Cape Fear, North Carolina (Henry <i>et al</i>. 2008) to the Caribbean Sea (Fraser 1943, as <i>Eucryptolaria pinnata</i>) and Gulf of Mexico (Calder &amp; Cairns 2009). Elsewhere. Circumglobal at lower latitudes in deeper waters (49–1280 m) (Vervoort &amp; Watson 2003).
description: Published as part of <i>Calder, Dale R., 2013, Some shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the central east coast of Florida, USA, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 3648 (1)</i> on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5264362
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