Clytia paulensis ( Vanhöffen, 1910 )

Galea, Horia R., 2007, Hydroids and hydromedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the fjords region of southern Chile, Zootaxa 1597 (1), pp. 1-116 : 89-90

Clytia paulensis ( Vanhöffen, 1910)

(fig. 20J–L, table 38)

Campanularia paulensis Vanhöffen, 1910: 272 , 298, fig. 19A–B.

Clytia ? paulensis: Stechow, 1919: 45 .

Clytia paulensis: Stechow, 1923: 110 , fig. N; Calder, 1971: 51, pl. 3I; Millard, 1975: 221, fig. 73A–D; Cornelius, 1982: 88, fig. 14; Gili et al., 1989: 106, fig. 31A; Ramil & Vervoort, 1992: 239, fig. 67C–D; Cornelius, 1995b: 258, fig. 59; Hirohito, 1995 (English text): 68, fig. 20A–B, pl. 4 fig. D; Ramil et al., 1998a: 199; Medel & Vervoort, 2000: 39; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 2002: 152, fig. 29A–C; Bouillon et al., 2004: 196, fig. 100F–J; Calder & Kirkendale, 2005: 486; Vervoort, 2006: 271.

Material examined. Stn. MEL 02 —06.iii. 2005, 15 m, S81: several fertile colonies, epizoic on Symplectoscyphus filiformis and Obelia dichotoma ; S78: one sterile colony, epizoic on Symplectoscyphus subdichotomus ( MHNG INVE 53274). Stn. MEL 03 —08.iii.2005, 20– 30 m, S90: small, infertile colony, epizoic on Symplectoscyphus filiformis .

Type locality. Saint Paul , southern Indian Ocean .

Remarks. The present material from Chile agrees well with the redescription provided by Ramil & Vervoort (1992) and needs no further comment. An extensive synonymy of this species is given in Medel & Vervoort (2000). The medusa stage is still undescribed ( Cornelius 1995b).

World distribution. Temperate to warm-waters of Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans ( Medel & Vervoort 2000, Vervoort 2006).

Records from Chile. The present material was collected around Melinka, Guaitecas Archipelago. This is the first record of the species for Chile.