Acryptolaria Norman, 1875

Peña Cantero, Álvaro L. & Vervoort, Willem, 2010, Species of Acryptolaria Norman, 1875 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Lafoeidae) collected in the Western Pacific by various French expeditions, with the description of nineteen new species, Zoosystema 32 (2), pp. 267-332 : 268-269

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2010n2a5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4557172

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scientific name

Acryptolaria Norman, 1875
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Genus Acryptolaria Norman, 1875 View in CoL

Acryptolaria Norman, 1875: 172 View in CoL , pl. 12 figs 1, 2.

Scapus Norman, 1875: 173 , pl. 12 figs 1, 3 (type species: Scapus tubulifer Norman, 1875 ).

Oswaldaria Stechow, 1921: 30 (type species: Cryptolaria crassicaulis Allman, 1888 View in CoL ).

TYPE SPECIES. — Acryptolaria andersoni Totton, 1930 .

DIAGNOSIS. — Lafoeidae with adult colonies consisting of branched, polysiphonic, erect stems with a main, hydrothecate central axial tube and a series of accompanying accessory tubes. Branches also polysiphonic, originating from secondary tubes. Polysiphony decreasing distally, but almost reaching distal end. Hydrothecae only present on main axis of stem and branches. Hydrothecae alternately arranged, forming two longitudinal rows (with the exception of A. tetraseriata n. sp.), usually in one plane. Hydrotheca tubiform, partially adnate to branch; without diaphragm. Nematothecae absent. Gonothecae aggregated to form a coppinia, with or without defensive tubes. Gonophores fixed sporosacs. Cnidome consisting of two categories of nematocysts: large putative macrobasic mastigophores and small putative microbasic mastigophores.

REMARKS

For a wider discussion on the genus see Peña Cantero et al. (2007). These authors completely redescribed the type specimens of the known species, with the exception of A. andersoni and A. rectangularis ( Jarvis, 1922) , for which no type material could be located; it is probably lost. According to Peña Cantero et al. (2007) the genus after their revision included 16 valid species. However, A. andersoni , type species of the genus, and A. rectangularis are insufficiently known, although the coppinia of the former, that was mistakenly described as a new species of hydroid ( Scapus tubulifer Norman, 1875 ), is known.

SPECIES INCLUDED

A list of species originally referred to Acryptolaria is given by Peña Cantero et al. (2007); they also list the species that actually belong to other genera of Lafoeidae , as Cryptolaria , Grammaria or Zygophylax .

Below we list all presently known species of Acryptolaria (in bold those found in the present study):

Acryptolaria abies (Allman, 1877)

Acryptolaria andersoni Totton, 1930 View in CoL

Acryptolaria angulata (Bale, 1914) View in CoL

Acryptolaria bathyalis n. sp.

Acryptolaria bulbosa ( Stechow, 1932) View in CoL

Acryptolaria conferta (Allman, 1877) View in CoL

Acryptolaria corniformis Naumov & Stepanjants, 1962 View in CoL

Acryptolaria crassicaulis (Allman, 1888) View in CoL

Acryptolaria disordinata View in CoL n. sp.

Acryptolaria encarnae n. sp.

Acryptolaria flabelloides n. sp.

Acryptolaria flabellum (Allman, 1888)

Acryptolaria gemini n. sp.

Acryptolaria gracilis (Allman, 1888)

Acryptolaria infinita n. sp.

Acryptolaria intermedia n. sp.

Acryptolaria inversa n. sp.

Acryptolaria laertesi n. sp.

Acryptolaria longitheca (Allman, 1877)

Acryptolaria medeae n. sp.

Acryptolaria minima Totton, 1930 View in CoL

Acryptolaria minuta Watson, 2003 View in CoL

Acryptolaria niobae View in CoL n. sp.

Acryptolaria norfolkensis n. sp.

Acryptolaria novaecaledoniae n. sp.

Acryptolaria operculata Stepanjants, 1979 View in CoL

Acryptolaria profunda View in CoL n. sp.

Acryptolaria pseudoangulata View in CoL n. sp.

Acryptolaria pseudoundulata n. sp.

Acryptolaria pulchella (Allman, 1888)

Acryptolaria pygmaea n. sp.

Acryptolaria rectangularis ( Jarvis, 1922) View in CoL

Acryptolaria tetraseriata View in CoL n. sp.

Acryptolaria tortugasensis Leloup, 1935

Acryptolaria undulata n. sp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Leptothecata

Family

Lafoeidae

Loc

Acryptolaria Norman, 1875

Peña Cantero, Álvaro L. & Vervoort, Willem 2010
2010
Loc

Oswaldaria

STECHOW E. 1921: 30
1921
Loc

Acryptolaria

NORMAN A. M. 1875: 172
1875
Loc

Scapus

NORMAN A. M. 1875: 173
1875
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