Notes on Candelabrum australe (Briggs, 1928) (Hydrozoa, Anthoathecatae)

Memoirs of Museum Victoria Vol 64 p. 103–106 (2007)

DOI

http://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2007.64.10

Abstract

Candelabrum australe is a rare species known only from southern Australian waters and is reported for the first time from New Zealand. The large cap-shaped hydranth is very active. The cnidome comprises at least nine size-classes of nematocysts in four morphological categories. The hydranth is bisexual, the sexes borne separately on stout branched blastostyles from which lobate actinula larvae are released.

Citation

Watson, J.E., 2007. Notes on Candelabrum australe (Briggs, 1928) (Hydrozoa, Anthoathecatae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64: 103-106. http://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2007.64.10

PUBLICATION DATE: 31 DECEMBER 2007