Taxonomic notes on Hydroidomedusae (Cnidaria) from the South China Sea V: Families Laodiceidae, Lovenellidae, Malagazzii
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Taxonomic notes on Hydroidomedusae (Cnidaria) from the South China Sea V: Families Laodiceidae, Lovenellidae, Malagazziidae, and Mitrocomidae (Leptomedusae) WANG Chunguang1, XU Zhenzu2, GUO Donghui2*, HUANG Jiaqi2, LIN Mao1, 3 1 Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Xiamen 361005, China 2 College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China 3 Collaborative Innovation Center of Deep Sea Biology, Hangzhou 31002, China
Received 29 June 2017; accepted 23 November 2017 © Chinese Society for Oceanography and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract
This study reviews all species belonging to the families Laodiceidae, Lovenellidae, Malagazziidae, and Mitrocomidae in the South China Sea. Two new species, Eucheilota carinata sp. nov. and Halopsis nanhaiensis sp. nov., are described and illustrated. One genus, Staurostoma, and two species, Staurostoma sp. and Octophialucium aphrodite (Bigelow, 1928), are first recorded in China seas. The key to all medusa genera and species of Lovenellidae and Malagazziidae are presented. Other data are briefly summarized to the list and distribution of species presented on the family Laodiceidae, Lovenellidae, Malagazziidae and Mitrocomidae in the South China Sea. The type specimens are deposited in the Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China. Key words: Leptomedusae, new species, new recorded genus and species, South China Sea Citation: Wang Chunguang, Xu Zhenzu, Guo Donghui, Huang Jiaqi, Lin Mao. 2018. Taxonomic notes on Hydroidomedusae (Cnidaria) from the South China Sea V: Families Laodiceidae, Lovenellidae, Malagazziidae, and Mitrocomidae (Leptomedusae). Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 37(10): 104–111, doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1309-y
1 Introduction This is the fifth paper of the series of taxonomic revision and reviews on Hydroidomedusae from the South China Sea (Lin et al., 2016; Xu et al., 2016; Wang et al., 2016). The present publication treats the families Laodiceidae, Lovenellidae, Malagazziidae, and Mitrocomidae. Based on previous reports (Xu, 1965; Xu and Zhang, 1964, 1978; Xu and Huang, 1983, 1990a, b, 2004; Zhang and Lin, 1984; Huang, 1987; Lin, 1989; Li and Chen, 1991; Lin and Zhang, 1991; Xu et al., 2007, 2014; Lin et al., 2009, 2010; Huang et al., 2010a, b) and recent records of the authors, a total of 36 medusa species including 2 genera of Laodiceidae, 3 genera of Lovenellidae, 3 genera of Malagazziidae and 2 genera of Mitrocomidae were identified in the South China Sea. This study describes two new species (Eucheilota carinata Xu, Huang and Guo sp. nov. and Halopsis nanhaiensis Xu, Huang and Guo, sp. nov.). One genus, Staurostoma, and two species, Staurostoma sp. and Octophialucium aphrodite, are newly recorded in the South China Sea. 2 Materials and methods The samples were collected from the South China Sea (4°00′– 18°30′N, 109°00′–119°00′E) during August to September, 2011. All planktonic samples collected using a large-type zooplankton net (80 cm diameter of net mo
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