Salacia desmoides ( Torrey, 1902 )

Calder, Dale R., 2013, Some shallow-water hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the central east coast of Florida, USA, Zootaxa 3648 (1), pp. 1-72 : 28

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3648.1.1

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scientific name

Salacia desmoides ( Torrey, 1902 )
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Salacia desmoides ( Torrey, 1902)

Fig. 8g View FIGURE 8

Sertularia desmoidis Torrey, 1902: 65 View in CoL , pl. 8, figs. 70–72 [the specific name desmoidis View in CoL deemed to be an incorrect original spelling (ICZN Art. 33.2.3.1) and emended by Nutting (1904) to desmoides ].

Type locality. USA: southern California (San Diego, San Clemente Island, San Pedro ) ( Torrey 1902) .

Voucher material. Off St. Lucie Inlet, 27°11.8’N, 79°57.3’W, 87 m, 04.x.1986, Johnson-Sea-Link, J028/JSL 2132, six colony fragments, up to 2.5 cm high, without gonothecae, coll. R. Roesch, ROMIZ B3967 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. Originally described from southern California, Salacia desmoides ( Torrey, 1902) has been reported from tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, including both eastern and western Atlantic (e.g., Grohmann et al. 2003; Vervoort 2006). Although specimens from Florida examined here indeed correspond morphologically with the species, and the name S. desmoides is maintained for them here, on biogeographic grounds their identity needs verification. As for European populations, molecular studies by Moura et al. (2011) indicate a close genetic relationship amongst hydroids assigned to the species from Portugal, the Azores, and the Mediterranean Sea (Banyuls-sur-Mer, France). Particularly needed now, however, are analyses of specimens from the type locality of southern California (and from the western Atlantic).

In first describing this species, Torrey (1902) spelled the specific name as desmoidis in both text and figure captions. While incorrectly formed, there is no evidence of an inadvertent error, such as a lapsus calami or a printer’s or copyist’s error, having been made (ICZN Art. 32.5.1). The subsequent spelling of the name as desmoides , first introduced by Nutting (1904), might thus appear under the code to be an unjustified emendation. However, that spelling, in prevailing usage (see recent synonymy in Vervoort & Watson 2003) and even adopted by Torrey (1904), is deemed here to be a justified emendation (ICZN Art. 33.2.3.1).

Reported distribution. Atlantic coast of Florida. First record.

Western Atlantic. Continental shelf of South Carolina and Georgia ( Wenner et al. 1984) to Brazil ( Grohmann et al. 2003).

Elsewhere. Tropical and subtropical regions of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans ( Medel & Vervoort 1998).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Celastrales

Family

Celastraceae

Genus

Salacia

Loc

Salacia desmoides ( Torrey, 1902 )

Calder, Dale R. 2013
2013
Loc

Sertularia desmoidis

Torrey, H. B. 1902: 65
1902
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