Leuckartiara octona Fleming, 1823

Galea, Horia R. & Schories, Dirk, 2012, Some hydrozoans (Cnidaria) from Central Chile and the Strait of Magellan, Zootaxa 3296, pp. 19-67 : 26

Leuckartiara octona Fleming, 1823

(fig. 2D, E)

Leuckartiara octona — Schuchert, 2007: 321, fig. 53.

Material examined. Stn. CHN — 25.iv.2011, S07 (5 m): a colony originally growing on a crab carapace; numerous stems, with and without gonophores, were subsequently removed from their substrate; several newlyreleased medusae were also obtained (MHNG-INVE-79602).

Remarks. For description, synonymy, and additional data, see Schuchert (2007).

Distribution in Chile. The polyp stage was previously recorded from the Strait of Magellan ( Jäderholm 1917, Vervoort 1972); the present record is from Chaihuin. The medusa is widely distributed along the entire Chilean coast ( Fagetti 1973, Palma et al. 2007).

World records. See Schuchert (2007).