Zyzzyzus warreni Calder, 1988

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Zyzzyzus warreni Calder, 1988 b

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Zyzzyzus warreni Calder, 1988b: 49 , figs 38–40.— Campos et al., 2007: 12 , fig. 1. Tubularia solitaria Warren, 1906: 83 , pls 10–11.

Zyzzyzus solitarius —Millard, 1975: 40, fig. 16A–B.—Hirohito, 1988: 24, fig. 7. Zyzzyzus calderi Petersen, 1990: 180 , fig. 30.

Material examined. Stn. 4: 19.03.2008 —a couple of dense, fertile colonies, on sponges ( MHNG INVE 60975).

Type locality. St. James, False Bay, South Africa.

Remarks. For a recent redescription of this species and a taxonomic revision of Zyzzyzus Stechow, 1921 , see Campos et al. (2007). Nematocysts (undischarged): large stenoteles (11.7–13.1) × (11.1–12.7) µm; medium-sized stenoteles (9.8–10.3) × (8.8–9.0) µm; small stenoteles (5.3–6.0) × (4.3–4.8) µm; heterotrichous microbasic euryteles (9.8–11.0) × (5.1–6.6) µm; merotrichous isorhizas (6.0–6.8) × (2.8–3.2) µm; homotrichous microbasic euryteles (5.7–6.1) × (3.1–3.6) µm; basitrichous isorhizas (6.3–7.1) × (2.0–2.1) µm; desmonemes (4.0–4.1) × (3.0–3.1) µm.

Distribution. Western and southeastern Atlantic, western Indian Ocean, northwestern Pacific. For a detailed list of records, see Campos et al. (2007). The Caribbean records are summarized by Calder & Kirkendale (2005).