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Clytia hemisphaerica: (A) detail of hydrotheca. RBCM 01700016-001. Scale equals 500 µm. (B) proximal part of pedicel branches. RBCM 017-00016-001. Scale equals 500 µm. (C) gonotheca. RBCM 01700016-001. Scale equals 500 µm. Del. HHC Choong.
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Twenty-eight species of hydroids are now known from Japanese tsunami marine debris (JTMD) sent to sea in March 2011 from the Island of Honshu and landing between 2012 and 2016 in North America and Hawai‘i. To 12 JTMD hydroid species previously reported, we add an additional 16 species. Fourteen species (50%) were detected only once; given the small...
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... He therefore considered the two to be conspecific, a proposed synonymy that has been widely followed (e.g. Gibbons and Ryland 1989;Calder 1991;Watson 2000;Zhenzu et al. 2014;Wedler 2017;Choong et al. 2018). However, C. linearis clearly differs from the account of C. obliqua by Clarke (1907) in having colonies that are usually erect and sympodially branched, hydrothecae that are large and deep, and marginal cusps with distinctive inward-folding pleats that extend onto the distal wall of the hydrotheca (Lindner and Migotto 2002;Cunha et al. 2020). ...
The hydroids of Cocos Island (Isla del Coco), Costa Rica, have received scant attention and are poorly known. Only 11 species have been reported from there previously, with five of them being stylasterids. Hydroids examined here were collected during 2019 in a search for invasive species, as part of a fouling survey. Fourteen species – three anthoathecates and 11 leptothecates – were identified in the collection. All represent new records for Cocos Island, elevating its number of reported species to 25. The most abundant species in the collection were Clytia obliqua (Clarke, 1907) and Sertularella affinicostata Calder and Faucci, 2021, found in 11 of 42 samples (26%), and Tridentata borneensis Billard, 1925a, present in nine (21%) of them. Nematocysts of Corydendrium flabellatum Fraser, 1938a and Eudendrium cf. certicaule Fraser, 1938a are newly identified, measured and illustrated. Three species (Clytia brevithecata (Thornely, 1900), Halopteris alternata (Nutting, 1900) and Macrorhynchia philippina Kirchenpauer, 1872), are introduced, with the rest assigned to a native or cryptogenic status.
... Thus, while the medusa occasionally swim out of the eelgrass meadows, natural or anthropogenic medusa dispersal, while possible, may not be the primary mechanism for its spread. Gonionemus sp. has a complex life history that includes minute benthic asexual stages (Perkins, 1903;Kakinuma, 1971;Uchida, 1976) that may be amenable to human-mediated transport on ship hulls (Tambs-Lyche, 1964), shellfish (Edwards, 1976), and debris (Choong et al., 2018). ...
... includes minute polyp and cyst stages (Perkins, 1903;Kakinuma, 1971;Uchida, 1976) that could have easily arrived unnoticed. In a genetic survey of epifauna, Gonionemus sp. was recently identified from the North American Pacific coast on tsunami debris originating from Japan (Choong et al., 2018). This suggests that polyp, frustule, and or cyst stages are capable of long-distance transport on anthropogenic surfaces. ...
The clinging jellyfish Gonionemus sp. is a small hydromedusa species known historically from the Swedish west coast but not reported in recent times. This species is thought to be native to the northwest Pacific where it is notorious for causing severe stings in humans and is considered invasive or cryptogenic elsewhere. This year, unlike in the past, severe stings in swimmers making contact with Gonionemus sp. medusae occurred in Swedish waters from a sheltered eelgrass bed in the inner Skagerrak archipelago. To the best of our knowledge, this is only the second sting record of Gonionemus sp. from the Northeast Atlantic—with the first record occurring off the Belgian coast in the 1970s. Stinging Gonionemus sp. medusae have also been recently reported from the northwestern Atlantic coast, where, like on the Swedish coast, stings were not reported in the past. We analyzed sea surface temperature data from the past 30 years and show that 2018 had an exceptionally cold spring followed by an exceptionally hot summer. It is suggested that the 2018 temperature anomalies contributed to the Swedish outbreak. An analysis of mitochondrial COI sequences showed that Swedish medusae belong to the same clade as those from toxic populations in the Sea of Japan and northwest Atlantic. Gonionemus sp. is particularly prone to human-mediated dispersal and we suggest that it is possible that this year’s outbreak is the result of anthropogenic factors either through a climate-driven northward range shift or an introduction via shipping activity. We examined medusa growth rates and details of medusa morphology including nematocysts. Two types of penetrating nematocysts: euryteles and b-mastigophores were observed, suggesting that Gonionemus sp. medusae are able to feed on hard-bodied organisms like copepods and cladocerans. Given the now-regular occurrence and regional spread of Gonionemus sp. in the northwest Atlantic, it seems likely that outbreaks in Sweden will continue. More information on its life cycle, dispersal mechanisms, and ecology are thus desirable.
... Also driven by ocean currents, nearly 30 hydroid species attached to debris from the Japanese tsunami in 2011 were transported by rafting from Japan to Hawaii and North America between 2012(Choong et al., 2018Choong & Calder, 2013). This suggests that floating substrata (Carlton & Fowler, 2018) including floating algal blooms should be considered effective means for the range expansion of some sessile marine organisms. ...
Biological systematics provides taxonomic information and expertise for biogeography and biological invasion research and management. However, the systematic classification of most taxa, including some alien and invasive species, relies only on morphology. This applies for example to Sertularella tongensis Stechow, 1919, an alien hydrozoan recently reported in the Mediterranean. Its genus affiliation is still unclear and controversial. Historically, it has been assigned to several existing genera. However, molecular data (COI, 16S, 18S, 28S) provided here do not support these previous assignments. Instead, integrative analyses combining morphological and molecular data support reassigning this species to a new genus, Bicaularia gen. nov. A biogeographic review revealed that this species is widely distributed in the mid- and low-latitude waters of the Indo-Pacific region, and is spreading to some tropical and temperate regions including the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, as well as Korea and Japan. This expansion may be attributable to human activity such as shipping through the Suez and the Panama Canals. However, the new record attached to a floating Sargassum algal fragment in the surface water of the open Pacific, might suggest a neglected cryptic spread pathway with the assistance of floating biological organisms. Our findings shed light on the complexity of the phylogeny and spread pathway of the investigated hydrozoan species. We regard the fine systematics as the first step towards future global sampling for molecular studies aiming to elucidate the origins and pathways for alien and invasive species.
... (Fig. 3). As a note, recently Choong & Calder 48 erected the family Plumaleciidae to accommodate Plumalecium plumularioides, but our results (Figs 3 and 4) suggest that this taxon may cluster within Kirchenpaueriidae. However, our specimen (USNM 1081744) identified as Plumalecium cf. ...
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... The family Phylactothecidae Stechow, 1921a is recognized here as valid following Choong et al. (2018). Included within it are H. carchesium and other species of the genus Hydrodendron Hincks, 1874. ...
... The family Phylactothecidae Stechow, 1921a is recognized here as valid following Choong et al. (2018). Included within it are H. carchesium and other species of the genus Hydrodendron Hincks, 1874. ...
An account is given of the names of families, genera, and species of hydroids established by C.M. Fraser of Canada, excluding those from Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions and the Allan Hancock Caribbean Sea Expedition. The names of four families, 11 genera, and 101 species are attributed to him in this work, complementing those of another two genera and 164 species described by Fraser in various Allan Hancock publications. Information is provided on type localities of his new species, on locations and kinds of type material in existence, where known, and on the current taxonomic status of families, genera, and species described by him in works reviewed herein. Two replacement names (Thuiaria geniculata Fraser, 1918a and Salacia fraseri Calder, 1991) exist for Thuiaria distans Fraser, 1914a (not Thuiaria distans Allman, 1877). The widely overlooked senior synonym, T. geniculata, is recognized as the valid name of the species. Diphasia alta nom. nov. is proposed as a new replacement name for the permanently invalid junior primary homonym Diphasia robusta Fraser, 1943a (not D. attenuata robusta Billard, 1924). In addition, Cryptolaria crassa nom. nov. is proposed as a new replacement name for the junior secondary homonym Cryptolaria rigida (Fraser, 1948) [not C. rigida (Fraser, 1940a)]. Lectotypes have been designated for 47 of the species to establish objective standards for application of their names. Corymorpha adventitia Fraser, 1941b, from the Pacific coast of Panama, is assigned to Ralpharia Watson, 1980, as R. adventitia. No type specimens are known to exist for seven of the species considered, including one holotype (of Hebella eximia Fraser, 1944a) missing from its bottle. Particular attention has been paid to dating and chronology of the 51 publications of Fraser covered in this work. Earlier bibliographic errors are corrected, most notably establishing that the book Distribution and relationship in American hydroids was published in early 1947 rather than 1946 as per the title page.
... The red alga Tsunamia transpacifica West, Hansen, Zuccarello andHanyuda, 2016 (West et al. 2016) was described from plastic JTMD arriving in Oregon and Washington. Choong et al. (2018) further suggest that the hydroid Obelia griffini Calkins, 1899 is a probable member of the North Pacific open ocean community. Obelia griffini was long held to be a synonym of the widespread Obelia dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1758), no doubt contributing in part to the delay of its recognition as a distinct member of the oceanic biota. ...
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Twelve species of sponges (Calcarea and Demospongiae) were found on Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris (JTMD) that washed ashore in Oregon, Washington, and Hawai‘i. All taxa but one determined to species level are amphi-Pacific, with three having type localities in California (Leucosolenia eleanor Urban, 1906, Hymeniacidon sinapium de Laubenfels, 1930, and Mycale macginitei de Laubenfels, 1930). Haliclona xena de Weerdt, 1986, known previously only from western Europe (and where it is regarded as introduced from an unknown region) is here newly reported from the Tohoku coast of Honshu, as is Halisarca “dujardini Johnston, 1842”. Five species (Mycale macginitei, Hymeniacidon sinapium, Ute sp., Haliclona xena and Halisarca “dujardini”) were observed only once. Multiple lines of evidence (including lack of colonization by uniquely Eastern Pacific sponge species, the arrival in Hawai‘i of some of the same species whose only possible origin was Japan, and the low probability of coastal sponge larvae colonizing JTMD in the open ocean) indicate that the sponges on JTMD originate from the Western Pacific. Several species of sponges may have completed multiple generations on these long-distance rafts.
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Forty-two species of hydroids, excluding stylasterids, are reported in the present collection from the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands. Of these, four are anthoathecates and 38 are leptothecates. Among the latter, Sertularella affinicostata
and Monotheca gibbosa are described as new species. The binomen Halopteris longibrachia is proposed as a new
replacement name for Plumularia polymorpha var. sibogae Billard, 1913, an invalid junior primary homonym of P.
sibogae Billard, 1911. Based largely on evidence from earlier molecular phylogenies, the genus Disertasia Neppi, 1917
is resurrected to accommodate species including Dynamena crisioides Lamouroux, 1824, Sertularia disticha Bosc, 1802,
and Sia. moluccana Pictet, 1893. Sertularella robusta Coughtrey, 1876 is an invalid junior primary homonym of Sla. gayi
var. robusta Allman, 1874a, and has been replaced here by the binomen Sla. quasiplana Trebilcock, 1928, originally
described as Sla. robusta var. quasiplana Trebilcock, 1928. Clytia hummelincki (Leloup, 1935) is referred to the synonymy
of its senior subjective synonym, C. brevithecata (Thornely, 1900). Following Reversal of Precedence provisions in
the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to preserve prevailing usage of binomena, the familiar names Sia.
disticha Bosc, 1802 (also known as Dynamena disticha) and Lytocarpia phyteuma (Stechow, 1919b) are designated
nomena protecta and assigned precedence over their virtually unknown senior synonyms Hydra quinternana Bosc, 1797
and Aglaophenia clavicula Whitelegge, 1899, respectively, names now reduced to the status of nomena oblita. Twenty
species are reported for the first time from Hawaii [Eudendrium merulum Watson, 1985, Phialellidae (undetermined),
Hebella sp., Hebellopsis scandens (Bale, 1888), H. sibogae Billard, 1942, Clytia brevithecata, C. linearis (Thornely,
1900), C. cf. noliformis (McCrady, 1859), Halecium sp., Sla. affinicostata, Sla. angulosa Bale, 1894, Pasya heterodonta
(Jarvis, 1922), Tridentata orthogonalis (Gibbons & Ryland, 1989), Pycnotheca producta (Bale, 1881), Monotheca
gibbosa, H. longibrachia, A. postdentata Billard, 1913, A. suensonii Jäderholm, 1896, A. whiteleggei Bale, 1888, and
L. flexuosa (Lamouroux, 1816)]. Sertularia orthogonalis, reported for only the third time worldwide, is assigned to
the genus Tridentata Stechow, 1920. Hydroids of the NOWRAMP 2002 collection consisted largely of presumptive
widespread species, with over 75% of them having been reported elsewhere in the tropical Indo-west Pacific region.
