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Hydroids symbiotic with octocorals from the Sulawesi Sea, Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2008

Stefania Puce ,
Cristina Gioia Di Camillo  and
Giorgio Bavestrello
Stefania Puce*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
Cristina Gioia Di Camillo
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
Giorgio Bavestrello
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Stefania Puce, Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy email: s.puce@univpm.it
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Abstract

Hydroids symbiotic with octocorals in the Bunaken Marine Park and in the Lembeh Strait (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) were studied. Four species, Hydrichthella epigorgia, Ralpharia neira, Pteroclava krempfi and Zanclea timida sp. nov. were recorded and are described. The new species Z. timida is the only one of the genus associated with an octocoral. It is characterized by a naked hydrorhiza producing nematocyst knobs and by polyps which are able to retract into their own rigid, cup-shaped, basal region. The relationship between epibiontic hydroids and their octocoral hosts affects the morphology of both partners. The hydrorhiza of Hydrichthella epigorgia is naked when associated with Anthoplexaura dimorpha, but perisarc-covered when growing on other gorgonian host species. Vice versa, the hydroid is also able to affect the host morphology: Ralpharia neira induces Ellisella sp. to develop new branches, with the inner skeleton enveloping the hydroid stem.

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symbiosishydroidsoctocoralsIndonesia

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 88 , Special Issue 8: Hydrozoans , December 2008 , pp. 1643 - 1654
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2008

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