Turritopsis fascicularis Fraser, 1943 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa): redescription and discussion of its phylogenetic position within the genus.

abstract

• Turritopsis fascicularis Fraser, 1943 was first described off Alligator Reef, Florida, USA, at a depth of 216 m. Presumably a deep-sea species, its validity has often been questioned due to the scarcity of available records. In this paper, T. fascicularis is re-described from some mature colonies from the upper slope of the Gulf of Mexico. Furthermore, new pictures of the colony, polyps, and medusa buds, are provided. A ~600bp sequence of the large ribosomal subunit of the mitochondrial RNA (lsu-rRNA, 16S), also known as the Hydrozoan barcoding molecule, is used for the first time to confirm the validity of T. fascicularis as a species, and analyze its phylogenetic position within the genus Turritopsis.

authors

• Miglietta, Maria

published proceedings

• Zootaxa

author list (cited authors)

• Miglietta, M. P.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Miglietta, Maria Pia

publication date

• March 2016

publisher

• Magnolia Press  Publisher

published in

• ZOOTAXA  Journal

keywords

• Animal Structures
• Animals
• Body Size
• DNA, Mitochondrial
• DNA, Ribosomal
• Florida
• Hydrozoa
• Organ Size
• Phylogeny

PubMed Central ID

• 27394557

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.3.10

start page

• 426

end page

• 433

volume

• 4097

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4097.3.10