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Reconciling genealogical and morphological species in
a worldwide study of the Family Hydractiniidae (Cnidaria,
Hydrozoa)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
MARIA PIA MIGLIETTA,* PETER SCHUCHERT & CLIFFORD W. CUNNINGHAM
Submitted: 7 July 2008
Accepted: 10 November 2008
doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00376.x
Miglietta, M. P., Schuchert, P. & Cunningham, C. W. (2009). Reconciling genealogical and
morphological species in a worldwide study of the Family Hydractiniidae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa).
— Zoologica Scripta, 38, 403–430.
The Hydractiniidae are a family of globally distributed marine hydrozoans (class Hydrozoa,
phylum Cnidaria). Despite being one of the most well-studied families of the Hydrozoa, their
genus and species-level taxonomy is unsettled and disputed. The taxonomic difficulties of the
Hydractiniidae are due to many inadequate species descriptions, a paucity of available
morphological characters, many cryptic species, and the often-extreme plasticity seen when
colonies of the same species are found at different stages of growth or different environmental
conditions. This confusion over species identity is especially important because some species
of the family Hydractiniidae are well-established model organisms for a wide array of studies
ranging from gene expression to developmental biology and colony growth. Here we report
the species-level implications of 226 mitochondrial large ribosomal subunit (16S) rDNA
sequences from around the world and 52 nuclear DNA sequences (Elongation Factor 1α) with
the intent to reconcile described morphospecies with genealogical lineages.
Our data show that Podocoryna carnea and P. exigua are distinct and geographically disjunct
species, P. borealis is paraphyletic with respect to Podocoryna sp. from South Africa and P. bella
from New Zealand. Podocoryna australis, from New Zealand form a distinct monophyletic
group. Podocoryna from New England, New York and Florida all fall into a distinct monophyletic
group (P. americana) and fail to support the existence of a distinct, P. selena in the Gulf of
Mexico. Hydractinia pruvoti is the only species within the Podocoryna clade without fully formed
medusae. We identify a Clava clade closely related to other algae dwelling Hydractiniidae. Our
data do not recover Stylactaria inabai from Japan as a distinct species from S. misakiensis, and
S. carcinicola as distinct from H. epiconcha. Also, 10 colonies identified as S. carcinicola fall into
a distantly related clade that is close to the American S. hooperi. Finally, we identify Janaria
mirabilis as the sister group to the H. echinata species complex and clarify the relationships
between the H. echinata, H. symbiopollicaris, H. polyclina, H. symbiolongicarpus and H. [GM].
Corresponding author: Maria Pia Miglietta, Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
Current address: Biology Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Peter Schuchert, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, CH1211, Route malagnou 1, Geneva, Switzerland.
E-mail: [email protected]
Clifford Cunningham, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. E-mail:
[email protected]
Introduction
The Hydractiniidae are a family of globally distributed
marine hydrozoans (class Hydrozoa, phylum Cnidaria). The
basic hydrozoan life cycle includes a benthic colonial stage that
reproduces asexually, and a pelagic sexual medusa (jellyfish)
stage that is asexually produced by the colony (Fig. 1). While
some hydractiniid species retain the complete polyp/medusa
life cycle, in most hydractiniid species the swimming medusa
stage is reduced to the point where it is never released from
the colony. The polyps of hydrozoan colonies are connected
to one another by gastrovascular canals known as stolons
(Fig. 1). Hydractiniid colonies typically grow on marine surfaces
as epibionts, with most living on gastropod shells occupied by
living gastropods or by hermit crabs (Mills 1976; Buss &
Yund 1989; Schuchert 2008). Other hydractiniid colonies
grow on algae or rock substrata. The family Hydractiniidae
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Fig. 1 A, B. General hydrozoan life cycle with fully functional medusa (typical of the genus Podocoryna, Fam. Hydractiniidae) (A) and with
medusa reduced to sporosac (B). Intermediate forms, with medusae reduced to non-feeding, swimming medusoids are also found in the
Hydrozoa in general and in the Family Hydractiniidae.
comprises about 106 nominal species and 10 extant genera
(Bouillon et al. 2006).
Despite being one of the most well-studied families of the
Hydrozoa, the genus and species-level taxonomy is unsettled
and disputed (Schuchert 2008; Boero et al. 1998). The taxonomic
difficulties of the Hydractiniidae are due both to a paucity of
morphological characters, and the often-extreme plasticity
seen when colonies of the same species are found at different
stages of growth or different environmental conditions. Here
we report the species-level implications of 226 mitochondrial
large ribosomal subunit (16S) rDNA sequences from around
the world.
Difficulty of diagnosing hydractiniid genera
The three main and most speciose genera of the Hydractiniidae
(Hydractinia van Beneden 1867; Podocoryna Sars 1846; and
Stylactaria Stechow 1921a) are traditionally distinguished
with a combination of two morphological and developmental
characters, one involving the developmental stage of sexually
mature medusae, and the other involving the developmental
stage of the colony itself. The likelihood that the major genera
are not monophyletic led Bouillon et al. (1997), Boero et al.
(1998) and Bouillon et al. (2006) to propose merging
Hydractinia, Stylactaria and Podocoryna into the oldest one —
Hydractinia. These authors used the argument that neither
the state of the hydrorhiza nor the presence/absence of a
medusa allows an unambiguous separation of the genera due
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to intergrading forms. The present paper does not aim to
resolve the genus-level discussion; this will be done in a
separate study that includes more nuclear genes. Some genus
allocations used in this article are thus provisional and
correspond more to common usage than strict monophyletic
clades.
Degree of medusa reduction in hydractiniid genera
The genus Podocoryna is characterized by having fully-formed
swimming medusae that are asexually produced from the
benthic colony stage. These medusae are normally fully
formed, that is, they have radial canals, tentacles and a manubrium with a functional mouth. In all the other hydractiniid
genera — including the largest genera (Stylactaria and
Hydractinia) — the medusae becomes sexually mature before
they complete development (paedomorphosis, Boero & Sara
1987; Cunningham & Buss 1993). There are two levels of
paedomorphosis in the Hydractiniidae, eumedusoids and
sporosacs. Eumedusoids are partially formed medusae that
become sexually mature without completing development to
the point where they can swim normally. Depending on the
species or the environmental conditions, eumedusoids are
sometimes released from the colony, but cannot move far
before they release their gametes. In other cases, eumedusoids
are never released from the colony, effectively ending the
alternation of asexual and sexual generations that characterize
the Hydrozoa. Sporosacs represent the most extreme case of
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paedomorphosis, so that gametes are produced inside sacs
that are not only attached to the colony, but have lost any
traces of the medusa stage, most notably the radial canals that
are present in eumedusoids.
Characteristics of colony formation in hydractiniid genera
The genera Stylactaria and Hydractinia have been diagnosed
by the structure of the hydrorhiza, the network of stolons
connecting the polyps (Millard 1975; Calder 1988; Hirohito
1988; Schuchert 1996). The hydrorhiza of Stylactaria is formed
by stolons — often forming a close reticulated meshwork —
that are always enclosed in the non-living, chitinous periderm.
The hydrorhiza of Hydractinia colonies is composed of
stolons that coalesce into a mat whose top layer is composed
of living tissue, formally referred to as naked coenosarc.
Chitin is produced in other parts of Hydractinia colonies, but
not on the top layer of the mat. In many species of the genus
Podocoryna — which differs from the other genera by producing
free-swimming fully-formed medusae — colonies routinely
progress from periderm-covered reticulate stolons to a
more fully-developed coalescence of stolons with naked
coenosarc. In terms of timing of development, these can be
described as events of heterochrony (Blackstone 1996). The
Stylactaria condition can be described as paedomorphic,
since it stops at the periderm-covered stage, and the
Hydractinia condition can be described as accelerated since it
reaches the naked coenosarc stage well before achieving
reproductive maturity (Blackstone 1996).
Rare hydractiniid genera
Other genera in the Hydractiniidae are Hydrissa Stechow
1921, Clavactinia Thornely 1904, Janaria Stechow 1921a,
Hydrocorella Stechow 1921b, Fiordlandia Schuchert 1996,
Kinetocodium Kramp 1922, Hansiella Bouillon 1980, and
Tregubovia Picard 1958 (see Bouillon et al. 2006). These
genera are generally rare, and morphologically very distinct.
For example, Janaria and Hydrocorella form fully calcified
skeletons. Finally, the genus Clava was originally placed in
the Family Clavidae, but has been recently reassigned to the
Hydractiniidae (Schuchert 2001).
Difficulty of diagnosing hydractiniid species
Species-level identification is famously difficult not only in
the Hydractiniidae but in the entire class Hydrozoa. Many of
the more than 100 nominal species of Hydractiniidae are at
present not recognizable due to inadequate descriptions (see
also Schuchert 2008). Many species are known only from the
original — and sometimes very old — descriptions, some dating
back more than a century and often lacking morphological
information now considered important for correct identification.
Adding to the confusion, these animals show extreme
morphological plasticity depending on the substratum or
environmental conditions. As described below, morphotypes
of the same species have been described as different species,
resulting in an overestimation of species diversity. On the
other hand, the presence of sibling species with little or no
morphological diversification leads to an underestimation of
this diversity. As an example, the most thoroughly studied
species of the family has usually been referred to in the literature
— regardless of where it was collected — as Hydractinia echinata
(Fleming 1828). This was divided into four sibling species,
with H. echinata in Europe, and three morphologically
very similar species in North America (H. symbiolongicarpus,
H. symbiopollicaris and H. polyclina Buss & Yund 1989). Even
this did not reflect the extent of the cryptic diversity. As
described below, there is a fourth, undescribed Hydractinia
species in the Gulf of Mexico, and the European Hydractinia
echinata is itself composed of two distinct species.
This confusion over species identity is especially important
because some species of the family Hydractiniidae are wellestablished model organisms for a wide array of studies
ranging from gene expression to developmental biology and
colony growth (Yund et al. 1987; Schierwater et al. 1991;
Blackstone & Buss 1993; Blackstone 1996; Cartwright et al.
1999). Given the lack of clarity and necessary details of some
species description, together with the intrinsic difficulty to
tell Hydractiniidae species apart, many experimental studies
might have been carried out on material of dubious identity
(Boero et al. 1998).
An mtDNA-based analysis of worldwide collection of
hydractiniid species
This article investigates mitochondrial and nuclear gene
genealogies for 226 Hydractiniidae colonies or medusae
collected worldwide (Table 1). We report an effort to reconcile
described morphospecies with monophyletic groups reconstructed using fragments of the mitochondrial large ribosomal
subunit gene (16S) and the nuclear gene Elongation Factor
1α. The 16S gene is much more easily amplified in Hydrozoa
than COI. Although the 16S gene evolves about one-third as
fast as COI (Govindarajan et al. 2005), comparisons of several
cryptic species in the hydrozoan genus Obelia did not find any
cases where a monophyletic group was identified by COI but
not 16S (Govindarajan et al. 2005), and the same is true for
several hydractiniid species (Cunningham, unpublished
observations). Where possible, we apply a genealogical
species concept to provisionally identify evolutionarily significant units (Baum & Shaw 1995).
Materials and methods
Collection of fresh material
For a complete list of the 226 samples, localities, voucher
specimens, and GenBank accession numbers see Table 1.
Sequences belonging to seven species of the family Stylasteridae
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Specimen code in trees
Primary species identification
Collecting sites
Susbstate
Voucher specimen
Identified by
GenBank accession
number 16S/EF1α
045 Clavactina gallensis
046 H. serrata USA
047 H. rubricata NZ
48b H. serrata USA
050 H. serrata USA
052 H. serrata USA
053 H. serrata USA
012 Hydractinia spec.
072 H. polyclina USA
070 H. echinata
071 H. echinata USA
074 H. symbiolongicarpus USA
073 H. symbiolongicarpus USA
075 H. symbiolongicarpus USA
065 Hydrissa sodalis Japan
066 Hydrissa sodalis Japan
067 Hydrissa sodalis Japan
068 Hydrissa sodalis Japan
069 Janaria mirabilis
077 H. altispina S. Africa
078 Hydractinia sp. California
079 S uchidai Japan
081 H. laevispina
080 H. milleri Canada
082 H. milleri USA
083 S. reticulata Japan
084 H. epiconcha Japan
085 H. epiconcha Japan
086 S. carcinicola Japan
087 S. carcinicola Japan
088 S. carcinicola Japan
089 S. carcinicola Japan
090 H. epiconcha Japan
091 S. carcinicola Japan
092 S. carcinicola Japan
093 S. carcinicola Japan
094 H. epiconcha Japan
095 H. epiconcha Japan
096 H. epiconcha Japan
097 H. epiconcha Japan
098 S. carcinicola Japan
099 S. carcinicola Japan
Clavactinia gallensis
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia rubricata
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia spec. 2
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
Hydrissa sodalis
Hydrissa sodalis
Hydrissa sodalis
Hydrissa sodalis
Janaria mirabilis
Hydractinia altispina
Hydractinia sp.
Stylactaria uchidai
Hydractinia laevispina
Hydractinia milleri
Hydractinia milleri
Stylactaria reticulata
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Hydractinia epiconcha
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Hua Hin, Gulf of Siam,Thailand
Friday Harbor, WA, USA
New Zealand
Friday Harbor, WA, USA
Bering Sea, AK, USA
Bering Sea, AK, USA
Friday Harbor, WA, USA
provenience unknown
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Roscoff, France
New York Harbor, NY, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
New York Harbor, NY, USA
Beaufort, NC, USA
Okushiri Is., Hokkaido, Japan
Okushiri Is., Hokkaido, Japan
Okushiri Is., Hokkaido, Japan
Okushiri Is., Hokkaido, Japan
Gulf of Mexico
False Bay, South Africa
Monterey Bay, CA, USA
Muroran, Pacific coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Catalina Island, CA, USA
Vancouver, Canada
Bodega Bay, CA, USA
Choshi, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Hirido beach, Nakagi, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Kii Peninsula, Japan
Misaki, Sagami Bay, Miura Peninsula, Japan
Misaki Fish Market, Sagami Bay, Japan
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Hirido beach, Nakagi, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Hirido beach, Nakagi, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Misaki Fish Market, Sagami Bay, Japan
Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Kii Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Gastropod
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hemit crab
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Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Pagurus longicarpus
Pagurus longicarpus
Pagurus longicarpus
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Gastropod
Sea weed (Codium)
Hermit crab
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Dock Piles
Rock
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Pollia mollis
Pollia mollis
Gastropod
Turbo sp.
Turbo sp.
Turbo sp.
Pollia mollis
Turbo sp.
Gastropod
Gastropod
Pollia mollis
Gastropod
Pollia mollis
Turbo sp.
Gastropod
Gastropod
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FJ214382/FJ372859
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Table 1 List of the vaucher specimens, primary species identification in the filed, collecting sites, substrates, GenBank accession numbers, and identifier.
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Specimen code in trees
Primary species identification
Collecting sites
Susbstate
Voucher specimen
Identified by
GenBank accession
number 16S/EF1α
100 S. carcinicola Japan
101 H. epiconcha Japan
102 H. epiconcha Japan
051 H. epiconcha Japan
104 S. carcinicola Japan
105 S. carcinicola Japan
106 S. carcinicola Japan
107 S. carcinicola Japan
108 S. carcinicola Japan
109 H. epiconcha Japan
110 S. carcinicola Japan
111 S. carcinicola Japan
112 H. epiconcha Japan
114 H. epiconcha Japan
115 H. epiconcha Japan
116 H. epiconcha Japan
117 H. epiconcha Japan
118 H. epiconcha Japan
119 S. carcinicola Japan
120 H. epiconcha Japan
121 S. carcinicola Japan
122 S. carcinicola Japan
123 S. carcinicola Japan
124 S. carcinicola Japan
125 S. carcinicola Japan
126 S. carcinicola Japan
127 H. allmani Iceland
128 Hydractinia sp. USA
129 H. antonii Aleutians
130 H. allmanii Bering Sea
131 S. conchicola Japan
132 S. conchicola Japan
133 S. conchicola Japan
134 H. fucicola Italy
001 H. inermis Italy
002 H. inermis Italy
007 H. inermis Italy
008 H. inermis Italy
135 Clava multicornis Iceland
136 Clava multicornis Iceland
137 Clava multicornis USA
138 Clava multicornis USA
139 Clava multicornis USA
Stylactaria carcinicola
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Hydractinia epiconcha
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Hydractinia epiconcha
Stylactaria carcinicola
Hydractinia epiconcha
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Hydractinia allmanii
Hydractinia sp. unidentified
Hydractinia antonii
Hydractinia allmanii
Stylactaria conchicola
Stylactaria conchicola
Stylactaria conchicola
Hydractinia fucicola
Hydractinia inermis
Hydractinia inermis
Hydractinia inermis
Hydractinia inermis
Clava multicornis
Clava multicornis
Clava multicornis
Clava multicornis
Clava multicornis
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Hirido beach, Nakagi, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Kii Peninsula, Japan
Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Kii Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Hirido beach, Nakagi, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Mkimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Kii Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Hirido beach, Nakagi, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Keijflavic Harbour, Iceland
CA, USA
Aleutian Islands, AK, USA
Bering Sea, AK, USA
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Torre del Serpe, Otranto, Apulia, Italy
Otranto, Apulia, Italy
Otranto, Apulia, Italy
Otranto, Apulia, Italy
Otranto, Apulia, Italy
Sangerdi vicinity, Iceland
Sangerdi vicinity, Iceland
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Gastropod
Bufoniella sp.
Gastropod
Pollia mollis
Hermit crab
Gastropod
Turbo sp.
Turbo sp.
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Pollia mollis
Turbo sp.
Gastropod
Pollia mollis
Gastropod
Pollia mollis
Pollia mollis
Gastropod
Pollia mollis
Gastropod
Gastropod
Turbo sp.
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Gastropod
Gastropod
Gastropod
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Rock
Rock
Hermit crab
Homalopoma amussitatum
Homalopoma amussitatum
Homalopoma amussitatum
Sea weed
Sea weed
Sea weed
Sea weed
Sea weed
Sea weed
Sea weed
Sea weed
Sea weed
Sea weed
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M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
A. Lindner
NOAA cruise 2000
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
S. Piraino
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
L. Buss Lab.
FJ214404
FJ214405
FJ214406
FJ214407
FJ214408
FJ214409/FJ372863
FJ214410
FJ214411
FJ214412
FJ214413
FJ214414
FJ214415
FJ214416/FJ372864
FJ214417
FJ214418
FJ214419
FJ214420
FJ214421/FJ372865
FJ214422
FJ214423
FJ214424
FJ214425
FJ214426
FJ214427
FJ214428
FJ214429
FJ214430/FJ372866
FJ214431/FJ372867
FJ214432
FJ214433/FJ372868
FJ214434
FJ214435/FJ372869
FJ214436
FJ214437/FJ372870
FJ214502
FJ214544
FJ214545
FJ214546
FJ214438
FJ21443
FJ214440
FJ214441
FJ214442
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Susbstate
Voucher specimen
Identified by
GenBank accession
number 16S/EF1α
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Specimen code in trees
Primary species identification
Collecting sites
86
140 Clava multicornis USA
Clava multicornis
NY, USA
Sea weed
—
M.P. Miglietta
FJ214443
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
141 Clava multicornis Europe
142 P. americana USA
143 P. americana USA
144 P. americana USA
145 P. americana USA
146 P. americana USA
147 P. americana USA
148 P. americana USA
149 P. borealis Iceland
150 P. borealis Iceland
151 P. borealis Iceland
152 P. borealis Iceland
153 P. borealis Iceland
154 P. borealis Iceland
155 P. borealis Iceland
156 P. borealis
157 P. borealis Iceland
158 P. borealis Scotland
159 P. bella New Zealand
160 Podocoryna spec.
161 P. borealis Iceland
162 P. borealis Iceland
163 P. australis New Zealand
164 P. australis New Zealand
165 P. australis New Zealand
166 P. carnea Denmark
167 P. exigua France
168 P. exigua France
169 P. exigua France
170 P. exigua France
171 P. exigua France
172 P. exigua France
173 P. exigua Italy
174 P. exigua France
175 P. exigua France
176 P. exigua France
177 P. exigua France
178 P. exigua France
179 P. exigua France
180 P. exigua France
P. selena
Clava multicornis
Podocoryna americana
Podocoryna americana
Podocoryna americana
Podocoryna americana
Podocoryna americana
Podocoryna americana
Podocoryna americana
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna bella
Podocoryna spec. SA
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna borealis
Podocoryna australis
Podocoryna australis
Podocoryna australis
Podocoryna carnea
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
Podocoryna exigua
P. selena
Europe
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Long Island, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Keijflavic Harbour, Iceland
Keijflavic Harbour, Iceland
Keijflavic Harbour, Iceland
Keijflavic Harbour, Iceland
Keijflavic Harbour, Iceland
Keijflavic Harbour, Iceland
Keijflavic Harbour, Iceland
Keijflavic Harbour, Iceland
Aquarium, Sangerdi Marine Lab., Iceland
Dunstaffnage, Scotland
Otago, New Zealand
Kalk Bay, South Africa
Aquarium, Sangerdi Marine Lab., Iceland
Keflavic Harbour, Iceland
Otago, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand
Denmark
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Roscoff, France
Mediterranean, France
Otranto, Apulia, Italy
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Florida
Sea weed
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus longicarpus
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
—
Rock
*Medusae
Fish
*Medusae
Shell
Gastropod
—
—
—
—
Hinia incrassata
Murex brandaris
Hinia incrassata
Hinia incrassata
—
—
—
Murex brandaris
Murex brandaris
Hinia incrassata
Hinia incrassata
Barnacles
Hinia incrassata
Hinia incrassata
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Identical to AY787878
—
—
—
—
—
material Schuchert (1996)
material Schuchert (1996)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
L. Buss Lab.
M.P. Miglietta
L. Buss Lab.
M.P. Miglietta
L. Buss Lab.
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
P. Schuchert
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
P. Schuchert
P.Schuchert
L. Buss Lab.
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
L. Buss Lab.
L. Buss Lab.
F. Boero
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
C. Cunningham
FJ214444
FJ214445
FJ214446
FJ214448
FJ214447
FJ214449
FJ214450/FJ372903
FJ214451/FJ372904
FJ214452
FJ214453
FJ214454/FJ372871
FJ214455
FJ214456
FJ214457
FJ214458
FJ214459/FJ372872
FJ214460
FJ214461
FJ214462/FJ372873
FJ214463/FJ372874
FJ214464
FJ214465
FJ214466/FJ372875
FJ214467
FJ214468/FJ372876
FJ214469/FJ372877
FJ214470
FJ214471
FJ214472
FJ214473
FJ214474
FJ214475
FJ214476/FJ372878
FJ214477
FJ214478
FJ214479
FJ214480
FJ214481
FJ214482
FJ214483
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Table 1 Continued.
409
Specimen code in trees
Primary species identification
Collecting sites
Susbstate
Voucher specimen
Identified by
GenBank accession
number 16S/EF1α
128
129
130
181 P. exigua France
182 H. pruvoti France
183 P. hayamaensis Japan
Podocoryna exigua
Hydractinia pruvoti
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Banyuls, France
Banyuls, France
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Crab
—
MHNG INVE32973
—
P. Schuchert
P. Schuchert
M.P. Miglietta
FJ214484
FJ214485/FJ372879
FJ214486
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
184 P. hayamaensis Japan
185 P. hayamaensis Japan
186 P. hayamaensis Japan
187 P. hayamaensis Japan
188 P. hayamaensis Japan
189 P. hayamaensis Japan
190 P. hayamaensis Japan
005 Stylactaria sp. Japan
192 P. hayamaensis Japan
193 P. hayamaensis Japan
194 P. hayamaensis Japan
196 Hydractinia sp. Ushimado
197 S. hooperi California
198 S. carcinicola Japan
199 S. carcinicola Japan
200 S. carcinicola Japan
201 S. carcinicola Japan Ito
202 S. carcinicola Japan
203 Hydractina cf. calderi Italy
204 S. carcinicola Japan
205 Stylactaria hooperi USA
206 S. carcinicola Japan
207 Hydractina cf. calderi Italy
208 S. carcinicola Japan
209 S. carcinicola Japan
210 S. carcinicola Japan
211 S. misakiensis Ushimado
212 S. multigranosi Japan
213 S. misakiensis Japan
214 S. misakiensis Japan
215 S. misakiensis Japan
216 S. misakiensis Japan
217 S. multigranosi Japan
218 S. multigranosi Japan
219 S. multigranosi Japan
220 S. misakiensis Japan
221 S. multigranosi Japan
222 S. misakiensis Japan
223 S. misakiensis Japan
225 S. multigranosi Japan
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Stylactaria sp. 1 on Sargassum
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Podocoryna hayamaensis
Hydractina sp.
Stylactaria hooperi sp. 2
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria carcinicola
Hydractina cf. calderi
Stylactaria carcinicola
Stylactaria hooperi sp. 1
Stylactaria carcinicola sp. 3
Hydractina cf. calderi
Stylactaria carcinicola sp. 3
Stylactaria carcinicola sp. 3
Stylactaria carcinicola sp. 3
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria multigranosi
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria multigranosi
Stylactaria multigranosi
Stylactaria multigranosi
Stylactaris misakiensis
Stylactaria multigranosi
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria multigranosi
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Monterey Bay, CA, USA
Hirido beach, Nakagi, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Otranto, Apulia, Italy
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Otranto, Apulia, Italy
Ito, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Loc. unknown, Japan
Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Kii Peninsula, Japan
Nishiwaki beach, Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Kashino, Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Nishiwaki beach, Ushimado, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Hermit crab
Crab
Hermit crab
Crab
Crab
Hermit crab
Crab
Sargassum sp.
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Gastropod
Gastropod
Gastropod
Hermit crab
Rope (in aquarium)
Crab
Crab
Gastropod
—
Dead shell
Hermit crab
Gastropod
—
Crab
Turbo sp.
Gastropod
Gastropod
Gastropod
—
—
Gastropod
Nassarius multigranosus
Nassarius multigranosus
Nassarius multigranosus
—
Nassarius multigranosus
—
—
Nassarius multigranosus
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
Yakko Hirano
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
L. Buss Lab.
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
FJ214487
FJ214488
FJ214489
FJ214490
FJ214491
FJ214492/FJ372880
FJ214493/FJ372902
FJ214494
FJ214495
FJ214496
FJ214497/FJ372901
FJ214498/FJ372882
FJ214499/FJ372881
FJ214500
FJ214501/FJ372883
FJ214503/FJ372884
FJ214504
FJ214505
FJ214506
FJ214507/FJ372885
FJ214508/FJ372886
FJ214509
FJ214510/FJ372887
FJ214511
FJ214512
FJ214513
FJ214514/FJ372888
FJ214515
FJ214516
FJ214517
FJ214518
FJ214519/FJ372889
FJ214520/FJ372890
FJ214521/FJ372891
FJ214522
FJ214523
FJ214524/FJ372892
FJ214525
FJ214526/FJ372893
FJ214528
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171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
Specimen code in trees
Primary species identification
Collecting sites
Susbstate
Voucher specimen
Identified by
GenBank accession
number 16S/EF1α
224 S. inabai Japan
226 S inabai Japan
227 S. inabai Japan
228 S inabai Japan
229 S. misakiensis Japan
230 S. sp. Japan
231 S. inabai Japan
232 S. misakiensis Japan
233 S. inabai Japan
234 S. misakiensis Japan
235 S. misakiensis Japan
237 S. inabai Japan
238 S. misakiensis Japan
239 S. multigranosi Japan
240 S. sp. Japan
241 S. multigranosi Japan
071 H. echinata
029 H. symbiopollicaris USA
026 H. symbiopollicaris USA
043 Hydractinia Gulf of Mexico
044 Hydractinia Gulf of Mexico
009 H. symbiopollicaris USA
030 H. symbiopollicaris USA
172 H. echinata Denmark
173 H. echinata Denmark
045 Hydractinia Gulf of Mexico
012 H. echinata Belgium
011 H. echinata Belgium
010 H. echinata Belgium
017 H. echinata Belgium
015 H. echinata Belgium
038 H. polyclina USA
038 H. polyclina USA
040 H. symbiolongicarpus USA
041 H. symbiolongicarpus USA
042 H. symbiolongicarpus USA
020 H. symbiopollicaris USA
021 H. symbiopollicaris USA
033 H. symbiopollicaris USA
013 H. symbiopollicaris USA
034 H. symbiopollicaris USA
032 H. symbiopollicaris USA
Stylactaria inabai
Stylactaria inabai
Stylactaria inabai
Stylactaria inabai
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria inabai
Stylactaria inabai
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria inabai
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria inabai
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria multigranosi
Stylactaria multigranosi
Stylactaria multigranosi
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia new spec.
Hydractinia new spec.
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia new spec.
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Misaki, Sagami Bay, Miura Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Nabeta, Shimoda Bay, Japan
Misaki, Sagami Bay, Miura Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Misaki, Sagami Bay, Miura Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula, Japan
Kashino, Ushimado, Seto Island Sea, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan,
Scotland
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Panacea, Gulf of Mexico, FL, USA
Panacea, Gurf of Mexico, FL, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Fredrikshavn, Denmark
Fredrikshavn, Denmark
Panacea, Gurf of Mexico, FL, USA
Belgium
Belgium
Belgium
Belgium
Belgium
Maine, USA
Maine, USA
Long Island, USA
Long Island, USA
Long Island, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
—
Gastropod
Gastropod
Gastropod
Gastropod
Hermit crab
Crab
—
Gastropod
—
Gastropod
Hermit crab
Gastropod
Nassarius multigranosus
Nassarius multigranosus
Nassarius multigranosus
Hermit crab
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Hermit crab
Pagurus acadianus
Pagurus acadianus
Pagurus longicarpus
Pagurus longicarpus
Pagurus longicarpus
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
M.P. Miglietta
L.A. Henry
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
FJ214527/FJ372894
FJ214529
FJ214530
FJ214531/FJ372895
FJ214532
FJ214533
FJ214534
FJ214535
FJ214536
FJ214537/FJ372896
FJ214538
FJ214539
FJ214540
FJ214541
FJ214542/FJ372898
FJ214543
xxx—xxx
FJ214557
FJ214558
FJ214559
FJ214560
FJ214561
FJ214592
FJ214562
FJ214563
FJ214564
FJ214565
FJ214566
FJ214567
FJ214568
FJ214569
FJ214570
xxx—xxx
FJ214571
FJ214572
FJ214573
FJ214574
FJ214575
FJ214576
FJ214577
FJ214578
FJ214579/FJ372900
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214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223
224
225
226
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
Specimen code in trees
Primary species identification
Collecting sites
Susbstate
Voucher specimen
Identified by
GenBank accession
number 16S/EF1α
028 H. symbiopollicaris USA
034 H. symbiopollicaris USA
025 H. symbiopollicaris USA
039 H. symbiopollicaris USA
036 H. symbiopollicaris USA
019 H. symbiopollicaris USA
024 H. symbiopollicaris USA
027 H. polyclina USA
023 H. polyclina USA
035 H. polyclina USA
014 H. polyclina USA
018 H. polyclina USA
016 H. polyclina USA
030 H. polyclina USA
037 H. polyclina USA
053 Adelopora crassilabrum
052 Stylaster duchassaingi
060 Stylaster roseus
061 Stylasteridae spec.
059 Stylaster sanguineus
054 Errinopora nannecea
063 Stylaster sp.
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia polyclina
Adelopora crassilabrum
Stylaster duchassaingi
Stylaster roseus
Stylasteriidae unidet.
Stylaster sanguineus
Errinopora nanneca
Stylantheca petrograpta
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Woods Hole, MA, USA
Maine, USA
Maine, USA
Maine, USA
Maine, USA
Maine, USA
Maine, USA
Maine, USA
Maine, USA
Aramis Seamount, Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia
Bahamas
Grenada, Spain
Aleutian Islands, AK, USA
Palau
Aleutian Islands, AK, USA
Race Rocks, British Columbia, Canada
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus pollicaris
Pagurus acadianus
Pagurus acadianus
Pagurus acadianus
Pagurus acadianus
Pagurus acadianus
Pagurus acadianus
Pagurus acadianus
Pagurus acadianus
Rock
Rock
Rock
Rock
Rock
Rock
Rock
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
USNM1027760
—
USNM1078387
—
—
USNM1027820
—
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
C. Cunningham
A. Lindner
A. Lindner
A. Lindner
A. Lindner
A. Lindner
A. Lindner
A. Lindner
FJ214580
xxx—xxx
FJ214581
FJ214582
FJ214583
FJ214584
FJ214585
FJ214586
FJ214587
FJ214588
FJ214589
FJ214590
FJ214591
FJ214592
FJ214593
xxx—xxx
xxx—xxx
xxx—xxx
xxx—xxx
xxx—xxx
xxx—xxx
xxx—xxx
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were made available by A. Lindner. Samples will be deposited
at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural
History (NMNH, Washington, DC, USA). Some specimens
are also described by Schuchert (2008) and have been deposited
in the Natural History Museum of Geneva (MHNG), and
others were previously deposited in the Peabody Museum
at Yale University (see Appendix I for specimen voucher
information).
Colonies were collected by SCUBA diving, snorkelling,
trawling and dredging on various habitats, and by filtering
sand. Plankton nets were used to collect medusae from
the plankton. Samples were fixed both in formalin (for
morphological investigations) and in 95% ethanol (for
molecular analyses). The species were identified using, among
others, bibliographic references listed in Table 2.
Where possible, the collected material was also compared
with type material or other reference specimens obtained
as loans from various museums and private collections
(Appendix 1).
A total of 38 nominal species and 6 unidentified species
were sampled and sequenced. For the latter set, only one
colony or one medusa was found. The available material has
not allowed description of new species that would meet all
the requirements of the Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
However, they still represent the biodiversity of the family
and were therefore kept in the analyses.
Not included in the analysis were sequences from the
species formerly known as Podocoryna minuta (Mayer 1900b;
synonymous with Lizzia blondina Mayer 1900a) and Podocorynoides minima (Trinci 1903). Both species belong in the
Family Rathkeidae (Schuchert 2007).
DNA sequencing
A 611-bp fragment of the mitochondrial 16S gene was amplified
using primers SHA 5′-ACGGAATGAACTCAAATCATGT-3′
and SHB 5′-TCGACTGTTTACCAAAAACATA-3′
(Cunningham & Buss 1993). Amplification took place under
the following PCR conditions: 1 min at 94 °C, then 35 cycles
of 94 °C for 15 s, 50 °C for 1 : 30 min and 72 °C for 2 : 30 min
with a final extension at 72 °C for 5 min. For some representatives
of each of the major clades 231 bp of the nuclear marker
Elongation Factor1α (EF1α) was also amplified and sequenced.
Primers for the EF1α were designed by Lindner et al. (2008).
PCR annealing temperature ranged from 55 to 60 °C depending
on the species. Other PCR parameters were as described
above for the mitochondrial gene.
The PCR product was purified using a QIAquick spincolumn purification kit (Qiagen Inc., Valencia, CA). The
purified PCR product was run on a 2% agarose gel stained
with ethidium bromide to assay the quantity and quality (i.e.
accessory bands) of the product. The purified PCR product
was used as a template for double stranded sequencing.
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Phylogenetic analysis
The sequences were first assembled and edited using the
software SEQUENCHER 3.0 (Gene Codes Corp., Ann Arbor, MI).
They were then aligned using CLUSTALX (Thompson et al.
1997). All the alignments were then confirmed and edited by
eye in MacClade 4.06 OS X (Maddison & Maddison 2000).
A variable region of the mitochondrial 16S gene, comprising
a total of 28 bp was difficult to align in the complete data set,
and was removed for some analyses. The nuclear EF1α
sequences also contained a highly variable intron that was
deleted from the analysis.
Phylogenetic analysis of the aligned sequences was performed
using the maximum parsimony optimality criterion in PAUP*
version 4.0b10 for Macintosh (Swofford 2001) and the
maximum likelihood (ML) optimality criterion in GARLI
v0.951.OsX-GUI (Zwickl 2006). Clade stability was assessed
by ML bootstrap analyses (Felsenstein 1985) in GARLI (100
bootstrap replicates). The ML analyses in GARLI were
performed using random starting trees and default termination
conditions. The best-fit model of nucleotide substitution for
each gene was a six-parameter model with invariant sites and
gamma distribution. The parameters for this model were
estimated by GARLI during each run.
Results and discussion
As described in the Introduction, gene genealogies using the
mitochondrial 16S gene have been shown to reliably identify
reciprocally monophyletic clades in the Hydrozoa (Schuchert
2005; Govindarajan et al. 2005; Miglietta et al. 2007; Miglietta
& Lessios 2008; Moura et al. 2008). The 16S gene is less successful
at recovering deeper nodes within the Hydractiniidae (Cunningham & Buss 1993). In this article, we will focus mostly on
assigning monophyletic groups to nominal species based on
the 16S gene. A complete study of species relationships and
the monophyly of genera require additional data, and will be
addressed in a separate paper (Miglietta et al. manuscript in
preparation). We begin by analysing all of our 16S sequences
together. Then, we discuss each of four major clades or grades
in turn, bringing to bear nuclear EF1α sequences where available.
The nuclear data helped confirm that nuclear and mitochondrial
markers are identifying genealogically distinct species.
Complete phylogenies of 16S and EF1α
The complete 16S data set comprised 233 sequences
(Table 1), including 226 members of the Family Hydractiniidae
and 7 outgroup sequences belonging to the Stylasteridae, the
sister group of the Hydractiniidae (Cairns 1983a; Cairns &
Barnard 1984, 1987; Cartwright et al. in press). After removing
the 28 bp variable region, the aligned sequences included
611 bp of the 16S mitochondrial gene. This region included
330 constant sites, 194 phylogenetically-informative sites,
and 87 autapomorphies.
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Species
Distribution
Clava multicornis (Forskal 1775)
Mediterranean Sea, West and
East Atlantic Ocean
Ceylon; India; Seychelles
Greenland; Arctic New Siberian Island;
Norway; Iceland
False Bay and Lambert’s Bay, South Africa
Aleutian Islands, AK, USA
Mediterranean Sea
California, USA
Northeastern Atlantic from the Arctic
Seas south to NW Africa
Kominato, Sagami Bay, Japan
Mediterranean Sea to Brittany
Clavactinia gallensis Thornely 1904
Hydractinia allmanii Bonnevie 1898
Hydractinia altispina? Hartlaub 1905
Hydractinia antonii Miglietta 2006
Hydractinia calderi? Bouillon, Medel & Peña-Cantero 1997
Hydractinia laevispina Fraser 1911
Hydractinia echinata (Fleming 1923)
Hydractinia epiconcha Stechow 1907
Hydractinia fucicola (Sars 1857)
Hydractinia G.M.
Hydractinia milleri Torrey 1902
Localities of the species were collected
in the present study
Woods Hole, East USA; Europe
Gulf of Siam, Thailand
Reykjavík, Iceland; Behring Sea,
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
False Bay, South Africa
Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA
Santa Caterina, Italy
California, USA
Scotland; Denmark; Belgium; Roscoff, France
Kominato, Nagaki, Japan
Torre del Serpe, Otranto, Italy
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Hydractinia multigranosi (Namikawa 1991)
Hydractinia n. sp. 1
Hydractinia n. sp. 2
Hydractinia n. sp. 3
Hydractinia n. sp. 4
Hydractinia polyclina Agassiz 1862
Hydractinia pruvoti Motz-Kossowska 1905
Gulf of Mexico, Florida, USA
From British Columbia to Southern
California, USA
Hokkaido (Oshoro Bay), Misaki — Japan
Monterey Bay (CA), USA
California, USA
Alaska, USA
Ushimato, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Northwest Atlantic, USA
Mediterranean Sea
Gulf of Mexico, Florida, USA
Vancouver, Canada; Bodega Bay, (CA),
Friday Harbor (WA), USA
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Monterey Bay (CA), USA
California, USA
Alaska, USA
Ushimato, Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Maine, Woods Hole (MA), USA
Banyuls, France
Hydractinia rubricata Schuchert 1996
Hydractinia serrata Fraser 1911
Hydractinia sodalis Stimpson 1858
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus Buss & Yund 1989
Hydractinia symbiopollicaris Buss & Yund 1989
Hydractinia uchidai Yamada 1947
Kaikoura to Dunedin, New Zealand
West coast of US; Greenland
Sagami Bay, Japan
North West Atlantic, USA
North West Atlantic, USA
Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan
Portobello, Dunedin, New Zealand
Bering Sea, Alaska; WA, USA
Okushiri Is., Hokkaido, Japan
Woods Hole (MA), Long Island Sound, USA
Woods Hole (MA), USA
Muroran, Pacific coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Janaria mirabilis Stechow 1921a
Podocoryna n. sp.
Podocoryna americana Mayer 1900a
Podocoryna australis Schuchert 1996
Podocoryna bella Hand 1961
Baja California to Panama and Fiji
Kalk Bay, South Africa
Northwest Atlantic
North Island, New Zealand
Portobello, Dunedin, New Zealand
Podocoryna borealis Mayer 1900a
Maine, USA; Iceland; British Isles from the
Channel coast to Shetland; North Sea;
southern and western Norway
Baja California (CA), USA
Kalk Bay, South Africa
Florida; Woods Hole, Long Island, USA
Leigh Marine Reserve, New Zealand
Portobello Marine Lab. (in aquarium tank),
Dunedin, New Zealand
Reykjavík, Keflavic, Iceland
References
Forskal 1775; Broch 1916; Pena Cantero & García
Carrascosa 2002; Bouillon et al. 2004
Thornely 1904; Annandale 1915; Millard & Bouillon 1973
Mayer 1900a; Rees 1956; Naumov 1969; Schuchert 2001
Millard 1955
Miglietta 2006
Bouillon, Medel & Pena Cantero 1997; Bouillon et al. 2004
Fraser 1911
Fleming 1923; Broch 1916; Naumov 1969; Vervoort 1972;
Schuchert 2001, 2008
Stechow 1907; Hirohito 1988
Sars 1857; Allman 1872; Iwasa 1934;
Motz-Kossowska 1905; Bouillon et al. 2004
Cunningham & Buss 1993
Torrey 1902; Fraser 1937
Namikawa 1991
perhaps a new species
perhaps a new species
perhaps a new species
perhaps a new species
Agassiz 1862; Buss & Yund 1989; Cunningham et al. 1991
Motz-Kosowska 1905; Bouillon et al. 2004; Iwasa 1934;
Bavestrello et al. 2000
Schuchert 1996
Fraser 1911; Naumov 1969; Schuchert 2001
Stimpson 1858; Goto 1910; Stechow 1921a; Hirohito 1988
Buss & Yund 1989; Cunningham et al. 1991
Buss & Yund 1989; Cunningham et al. 1991
Yamada 1947; Bouillon, Medel & Pena Cantero 1997;
Namikawa, 1994
Stechow 1921a, 1962; Cairns & Barnard 1984
perhaps a new species
Mayer 1900a; Edwards 1972; Mills 1976
Schuchert 1996
Hand 1961; Kramp 1968; Schuchert 1996
Mayer 1900a; Edwards 1972; Schuchert 2001
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Table 2 Localities where the nominal species of Hydractiniidae herein analized were reported in previous works (and relative references), and localities were the species were collected
during this work.
Localities of the species were collected
in the present study
Yamada 1947; Namikawa et al. 1990; Bouillon et al. 1997
Sigerfoos 1899; Bouillon, Medel & Peña Cantero 1997;
Pena Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002
perhaps a new species
Hirohito 1988; Namikawa 1991
Allman 1871; Iwasa 1934; Bouillon, Medel & Pena
Cantero 1997; Bouillon et al. 2004
Iwasa 1934; Hirohito 1988; Namikawa 1991
Hirohito 1988; Bouillon, Medel & Pena Cantero 1997
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula; Sagami Bay, Japan
Choshi, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Mills 1976; Cunningham & Buss 1993
perhaps a new species
Hiro 1939; Yamada 1959; Hirohito 1988; Namikawa 1997
Podocoryna exigua Haeckel 1880
Podocoryna hayamaensis Hirohito 1988
Mediterranean Sea and Britanny
Sagami Bay, Japan
Podocoryna selena Mills 1976
Stylactaria n. sp. (on Sargassum)
Stylactaria carcinicola Hiro 1939
Florida, USA
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Muroran and Sagami Bay, Japan
Stylactaria conchicola Yamada 1947
Stylactaria hooperii sp. 1 Sigerfoos 1899
Stylactaria hooperii sp. 2
Stylactaria inabai Hirohito 1988
Stylactaria inermis Allman 1871
Muroran, Japan
Coldspring Harbor, Long Island; Lloyd’s
Harbor, Huntington Bay
Monterey Bay (CA), USA
Sagami Bay, Japan
Mediterranean Sea
Stylactaria misakiensis Iwasa 1934
Stylactaria reticulata Hirohito 1988
Misaki and Sagami Bay, Japan
Sagami Bay, Japan
The complete EF1α data set comprises 54 sequences including
52 members of the family Hydractiniidae and 2 outgroup
sequences belonging to the Stylasteriidae. After removing an
intron of variable length, the aligned sequences included 231 bp.
This region included 134 constant sites, 86 phylogeneticallyinformative sites and 11 autapomorphies.
Figure 2A–C present the maximum-likelihood phylogeny
for all 233 sequences. Species assignments for reciprocally
monophyletic groups were made through extensive consultation with the taxonomic literature. Figure 3 shows the EF1α
phylogeny for a subset of samples. This nuclear gene was more
difficult to amplify and sequence, but is remarkably congruent
with the 16S phylogeny. Collection details are presented in
Table 1. Information about each nominal species and relevant
literature are presented in Table 2. In several cases, probable
species were only identified by single sequences that were
diverged from other monophyletic groups of taxa, were geographically disjunct, or were confirmed by EF1α (Figs 2A–4 ).
The Podocoryna clade
Figure 4 shows a 16S phylogeny of this species group that
includes the 28 bp variable region excluded in the full phylogeny
shown in Fig. 2. This phylogeny shows a strongly supported
(100% bootstrap) group that includes all sequences from species
known to produce fully formed medusae — the definition of
the genus Podocoryna (see above). The genus Podocoryna is paraphyletic, since this strongly supported group also includes one
species with a partially-formed, paedomorphic medusa
(Hydractinia pruvoti). These species are discussed in the context of the
phylogeny in Figs 3 and 4.
Podocoryna hayamaensis/Hydractinia pruvoti. Podocoryna hayamaensis is the only Podocoryna species we found in Japan,
despite the fact that three Podocoryna species were distinguished by Emperor Hirohito (1988) from the main location
where we collected (Sagami Bay, near Shimoda Bay). Although
Hirohito named only one of them, this is probably nevertheless
a case of over-splitting, as Hirohito (1988) often separated new
species on the basis of their substratum type. Our discovery
of no other Japanese Podocoryna besides P. hayamaensis is
consistent with the fact that P. hayamaensis is the only Japanese
Podocoryna with a fully-described life cycle (Hirohito 1988),
suggesting that the other two species distinguished by
Hirohito may not be valid. Some of the P. hayamaensis colonies
found in the Japanese Inland Sea at Ushimato deviated from
Hirohito’s description of 20 tentacles, since the Inland Sea
colonies had feeding polyps with only six to eight tentacles
(localities in Table 1). However, no genetic differences were
found within this species, which may mean these differences
are environmentally induced.
Hydractinia pruvoti is the only species in the Podocoryna clade
without fully formed medusae. The gonophores of this species
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Distribution
Monterey Bay (CA), USA
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula; Misaki, Japan
Torre del Serpe, Otranto, Italy
Haeckel 1880; Bouillon et al. 2004
Hirohito 1988
Species
Torre del Serpe, Otranto, Italy
Shimoda Bay, Izu Peninsula; Ushimato,
Seto Inland Sea, Japan
Florida, USA
Kominato, Boso Peninsula, Japan
Ito and Shimoda, Izu Peninsula; Mikimoto
Pearl Island, Toba, Kii Peninsula; Nakagi,
Izu Peninsula; Japan
Oshoro, Japan Sea coast of Hokkaido, Japan
Woods Hole, East USA
References
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Fig. 2 A–C. Maximum likelihood of phylogenetic hypothesis based on partial 16S mitochondrial gene (c. 600 bp) containing all the sequences
used in this study, tree split into three sections A–C. The branch length indicator represents 0.1 substitutions per site. Members of the family
Stylasteridae that were used as outgroup are identified in grey. The bracketed names on the right of the phylogeny reflect the taxonomic
decisions made in this article whereas the individual sequences refer to tentative assignments after collection.
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Fig. 2 Continued.
develop into medusoids that can be released or not, depending on the circumstances (Schuchert 2008). The eumedusoids have apparently no functional mouth, but may have
tentacle rudiments. Otherwise they are similar to other Podocoryna medusae and most likely represent a very recent case
of paedomorphosis (Boero & Sara 1987; Cunningham &
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Buss 1993). As discussed by Schuchert (2008), H. pruvoti is
very rare, endemic to the Western Mediterranean, and is
known from only a few collections.
Podocoryna carnea/P. exigua. The specific status of P. carnea is
especially important because it is the type species of the
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Fig. 2 Continued.
genus, and tends to be the default name given to North
Atlantic Podocoryna by non-taxonomists, such as ecologists
and developmental biologists (e.g. Masuda-Nakagawa et al.
2000; Bumann & Buss 2008). Our results confirm Schuchert’s
(2008) judgement that P. carnea and P. exigua are distinct,
geographically disjunct species, with P. carnea ranging from
Norway to Denmark, and P. exigua ranging from Brittany in
France to the Mediterranean (Table 1). The type locality of
P. carnea is Norway (Sars 1846), and our single sample collected
from the North Sea coast of Denmark (Table 1) matched the
carnea morphotype (see Schuchert 2008). In the 16S phylogeny
(Fig. 4), the samples of P. exigua form a tight monophyletic
group relative to the sample of P. carnea, which is 10 bp
diverged from the P. exigua clade (1.6% p-distance). The
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Fig. 3 Maximum likelihood of phylogenetic hypothesis based on the nuclear gene EF1α containing representative of each major clade of
Hydractiniidae. Numbers near the nodes indicate the bootstrap value (ML, 100 replicates). Nodes without number indicate that the bootstrap
support was lower than 50%.
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Fig. 4 Maximum likelihood phylogenetic hypothesis based on partial 16S mitochondrial gene of the data set containing sequences of Podocoryna
and Clava species, Hydractinia pruvoti, Hydractinia inermis and Hydractinia fucicola. Bootstrap notations are as in Fig. 3.
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specific status of P. carnea is also supported by its position as
distinct from P. exigua in the nuclear EF1α phylogeny
(Fig. 3).
The importance of properly defining the species status of
these species is underlined by the fact that two GenBank
records of P. carnea — one 16S (Collins et al. 2005; GenBank
AY512513) and one EF1α sequence (Groeger et al. 1999;
GenBank AJ549292) — should both be renamed as P. exigua
according to Figs 3 and 4.
Podocoryna americana/P. selena. The 16S sequences of Podocoryna
from New England, New York and Florida all fall into a
distinct monophyletic group (Fig. 4), confirming the judgement
of Edwards (1972) on the specific status of P. americana. Most
studies on the East Coast of the United States by non-taxonomists
have named their samples P. carnea (e.g. Cunningham & Buss
1993; Bridge et al. 2004; Bumann & Buss 2008), and should
now refer to P. americana. In contrast, more extensive sampling
of P. americana follows Cunningham & Buss (1993) in failing
to support the existence of a distinct, P. selena in the Gulf of
Mexico, suggesting that P. selena should be subsumed under
P. americana. This is in contrast to the situation in Hydractinia,
where the Gulf of Mexico samples are strongly diverged
(see below).
Podocoryna borealis/P. australis/P. bella/P. sp. We collected P.
borealis from Iceland and Scotland. Both the 16S and EF1α
phylogenies (Figs 3 and 4) confirm Edwards’s (1972) and
Schuchert’s (2008) judgement that the distinct morphology
of the P. borealis medusae sets it apart from the other North
Atlantic Podocoryna species. The 16S phylogeny shows
P. borealis to be a paraphyletic group (Fig. 4), although the EF1α
phylogeny in Fig. 3 shows two P. borealis individuals descended
from a single common ancestor. Although this may simply be
a rooting problem caused by the long branches of H. pruvoti
and P. hayamaensis, the paraphyly of P. borealis is confirmed by
two samples from the Southern hemisphere that are nested
within P. borealis in both the 16S and EF1α phylogenies (Figs 3
and 4). This includes one sample of P. bella from New Zealand
from a fish, and one undescribed sample from South Africa
(P. sp. Table 1). The remaining Podocoryna samples from New
Zealand are P. australis, which form a distinct monophyletic
group in both the 16S and EF1α phylogenies (Figs 3 and 4).
The observation that P. bella from New Zealand is distinct
from P. australis collected from Otago Bay confirms Schuchert’s
(1996) opinion that P. bella, found growing on the pigfish
Congiopodus leucopaecilius is distinct from the more common
P. australis. The 16S sequence of the New Zealand P. bella
sample differs only in 4 bp from the Northern P. borealis
(0.5%, Fig. 4), thereby falling within the range of intraspecific
variation in P. borealis (Fig. 4). The adult medusa of P. bella is
unknown (Schuchert 1996) and the polyps and young
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medusae of P. bella are very similar to P. borealis. The similarities
at the molecular and morphological level of P. borealis and
P. bella suggest that also the unknown adult medusa of P. bella
will resemble P. borealis.
An unidentifiable Podocoryna medusa was collected from
South Africa (Podocoryna sp. South Africa: Figs 2A and 4).
The latter medusa was an immature juvenile, had eight
tentacles and was therefore indistinguishable from P. borealis
of the same age. The 16S sequence of this sample was 9 bp
diverged from H. borealis (Fig. 4 and 1.4%). Though further
sampling is needed to confirm whether the southern taxa
form genealogically-monophyletic groups, the P. borealis
complex appears to form a closely related, anti-tropical clade
in the cold waters of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
One prominent Podocoryna species in the North Atlantic,
P. areolata collected from Norway, could not be included in
this study as its 16S sequence (GeneBank accession number
AM939651) became available only after all the analyses were
done. A preliminary analysis including P. areolata placed also
this species safely within the Podocoryna clade (data not shown)
(Figs 2A and 4).
The Clava clade
Clava multicornis. Clava multicornis colonies generally show
the characteristics of Stylactaria, with periderm-covered
stolons. The medusae are strongly paedomorphic, showing
the sporosac condition of a complete absence of radial canals
and never being released from the colony, so that gametes are
released directly from sporosacs clustered below the feeding
tentacles (Schuchert 2008 and references therein). Unlike
most hydractiniids, including Podocoryna, Clava polyps are
never polymorphic (Schuchert 2008 and references therein).
Clava is a monotypic genus whose unusual arrangement of
sporosacs originally placed them in the Family Clavidae (but
see Schuchert 2001). Our sampling of Clava multicornis 16S
confirms Schuchert’s (2008) judgement that it is found across
the North Atlantic, including Iceland (Fig. 4).
Stylactaria inermis/S. fucicola/S. sp. Sargassum. Unlike most
members of the Hydractiniidae, Clava multicornis is usually
found growing on fucoid algae. In the Mediterranean there
are two Stylactaria species that are also found growing on
algae, namely S. inermis, and S. fucicola. The former is the
type species for the genus Stylactaria. Like Clava, these species
can also be found on substrata such as rocks, but unlike most
hydractiniids, they are never found on motile substrata such
as gastropod shells occupied by living snails or hermit crabs.
These two species do not share Clava’s derived morphology,
and have some degree of polymorphism in their polyps.
Stylactaria inermis and S. fucicola are very difficult to distinguish
morphologically, a difficulty that is compounded by their
being found on the same substrata (Schuchert 2008).
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The 16S sequences of S. inermis and S. fucicola show very
deep divergences. The four S. inermis sequences fall into two
monophyletic groups nearly 6% apart from one another (Fig. 4).
Each of the S. inermis clades is 5.6% diverged from both the
Clava clade and our single S. fucicola sequence (Fig. 4), suggesting
that they represent two cryptic species. Finally, a colony
growing on the algae of the genus Sargassum in Japan (Stylactaria
sp. 1 on Sargassum, Fig. 4) is 6.3% diverged from Clava,
S. inermis, and S. fucicola.
To summarize, all three algae dwelling Stylactaria — which
include the type for the genus — plus Clava are between 5.6 –
6.3% diverged from one another. Although additional nuclear
data are needed, these four algae dwelling species probably
form a monophyletic group (Miglietta et al. in preparation).
The deep divergences in these lineages sharply contrast
with those separating the European Podocoryna species
(between 1.5% and 2.4% from one another, and 3% diverged
from the P. Americana) (Fig. 4). More nuclear data and
greater sampling are needed for the algae dwellers. However,
for comparison the Podocoryna species, with much smaller
16S divergences, are shown by the EF1α phylogeny in Fig. 3
to be true genealogical species (see discussion above).
As a final point, it is intriguing that in both the Podocoryna
and Clava clades there are divergent, predominantly
Mediterranean lineages (see H. pruvoti above and in Figs 3
and 4). Even the morphologically homogeneous S. inermis/S.
fucicola group has three divergent lineages with distances
twice as great as between most Podocoryna species. The ages
of these lineages almost certainly pre-date the Mediterranean,
and may be Tethyan remnants (Figs 2A, 3 and 5).
The Japanese misakiensis/inabai/multigranosi clade
This Japanese species group is found in shallow waters with
partially developed eumedusoids having few or no tentacles,
and periderm-covered stolons. The stolons place them in the
polyphyletic genus Stylactaria. This species group can be
divided into three closely related, geographically disjunct
genealogical species based on congruent 16S and EF1α
phylogenies (Figs 3 and 5). These phylogenies show three
closely related groups, corresponding to geographical
regions and separated by fixed differences. The northern
group can clearly be assigned to S. multigranosi based on its
host (the gastropod Nassarius multigranosus) and its location on
the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido (Namikawa 1991).
The Central Japanese group is a mix of individuals
identified according to Hirohito’s (1988) diagnosis depending
on their host, with Stylactaria inabai being found on hermit
crabs, and S. misakiensis being found on gastropods. The
EF1α and 16S phylogenies (Figs 3 and 5) show that there are
no consistent DNA sequence differences between individuals
collected from gastropods and hermit crabs on sandy bottoms
with eelgrass at three different locations (Shimoda Marine
Laboratory, Misaki Marine Station, and Nabeta). This strongly
suggests that this group of putative S. inabai and S. misakiensis
individuals should be collapsed into the older S. misakiensis
(Iwasa 1934) — shallow-water hydroids found on either gastropods or hermit crabs off the Pacific Coast of Central Japan.
The genetic distance (p) between S. misakiensis and S. multigranosi in the mitochondrial gene is 0.5%. To the South, in
the Seto Inland Sea of Japan, a third genealogical species is
identified by the EF1α and 16S phylogenies (Figs 3 and 5;
samples 211, 213, 216, 238). These were always small colonies found on shallow, mud-dwelling gastropods with no visible reproductive structures. The genetic distances (p)
between this third clade and S. misakiensis and S. multigranosi,
in the mitochondrial gene, are, respectively, 0.7% and 0.5%
Hirohito (1988) observed consistent morphological
differences between S. misakiensis depending on whether they
were found on gastropod or hermit crab hosts. These
differences appear to be induced by the substratum where
they are found. For example, the hermit-crab dwellers have
their periderm-covered stolons in parallel bundles that can
grow past the margin of the shell as the hermit crab grows
larger. The gastropod dwellers have reticulate stolons and never
grow past the margin of the shell. Intra-specific, substratuminduced differences in morphology are common in hydrozoans
(see Piraino et al. 1990 for a brief review). The EF1α phylogeny
shows the Seto Inland Sea species to be a sister-group to
the Central Japanese S. misakiensis. Since there are no
morphological features on the Inland Sea colonies, they will be
considered a sub-species of S. misakiensis (Figs 2B, 3 and 6).
The Japanese carcinicola/epiconcha group
A second group of Japanese hydractiniids found off the
Pacific Coast of Central Japan (variously known as S. carcinicola
and H. epiconcha) can be distinguished morphologically
because the formerly discussed S. misakiensis has much smaller
polyps (1–2 mm) than carcinicola/epiconcha (6–10 mm). This
species group illustrates both of the major problems in
hydrozoan taxonomy: splitting taxa that are not distinguishable by genetic data (as was the case with S. misakiensis vs.
S. inabai, above); and the inability to morphologically
distinguish distantly related clades, as described in the
following discussion.
More than any other species group, this one shows how the
presence of periderm-free areas on the colony (naked coenosarc)
— traditionally used to identify the genus Hydractinia — is a
misleading character. Figure 6 shows a 16S phylogeny with
H. epiconcha colonies sharing identical haplotypes with
S. carcinicola. It should be noted, though, that Hirohito (1988)
observed that the apparently naked coenosarc of H. epiconcha
had a very thin covering of periderm, consistent with being
placed in Stylactaria. Although there are two divergent
mitochondrial subclades in Fig. 6, a limited number of EF1α
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Fig. 5 Maximum likelihood phylogenetic hypotheses based on partial 16S mitochondrial gene for the Japanese S. misakiensis and
S. multigranosi. Bootstrap notations are as in Fig. 3.
sequences do not support distinct genealogical species
(Fig. 3). Individuals from each of the subclades had identical
EF1α sequences (112 H. epiconcha Japan, 089 S carcinicola
Japan) that were 3 bp diverged from a colony bearing the
basal mitochondrial haplotype (105 S carcinicola Japan). For
this reason all these species will be collapsed under the older
name of H. epiconcha (Stechow 1907), although the generic
designation will need to be revisited.
More importantly, of a total of 52 colonies morphologically
identified as H. epiconcha or S. carcinicola, only 42 are shown
in Fig. 6 as H. epiconcha. This is because the remaining 10
colonies identified as S. carcinicola (Fig. 2B, samples 189–202,
204, 206, 208–210) fall into a distantly related clade that is
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close to the American S. hooperi (Sigerfoos 1899; discussed in
following section). These 10 colonies were morphologically
indistinguishable from the 22 in Fig. 6 originally identified as
S. carcinicola (Fig. 6). This is a very deep divergence, on the
order of millions of years, between colonies that cannot thus
far be distinguished morphologically from one another.
Miscellaneous clades of Hydractinia and Stylactaria
Carcinicola/hooperi/calderi group (Figs 2B and 3). A morphological resemblance between S. carcinicola and the Atlantic S.
hooperi (Sigerfoos 1899) has been noted in the literature
(Hirohito 1988). Although most S. carcinicola colonies (22 of
32) are now collapsed into H. epiconcha (see discussion above),
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Fig. 6 Maximum likelihood phylogenetic
hypotheses based on partial 16S mitochondrial
gene for the Japanese H. carcinicola. Bootstrap
notations are as in Fig. 3.
10 S carcinicola colonies fall into a clade that includes a
Japanese unidentified species (Hydractinia sp. 4 from the Seto
Inland Sea at Ushimado), a Mediterranean species (H. calderi),
and species on the Western and Eastern Coasts of North
America. Although Cunningham & Buss (1993) called the
species found on gastropods in the Monterey Bay California,
S. hooperi, this name must be reserved for the population
represented by the individual taken from a bivalve in Woods
Hole, Massachusetts (205 Stylactaria hooperi USA). In the 16S
tree (Fig. 2B), the Woods Hole S. hooperi falls in a clade with
the 10 S carcinicola colonies mentioned above. Although this
might suggest that the Japanese colonies should be named S.
hooperi, limited sampling of EF1α sequences indicates that
the Japanese S. carcinicola fall outside of a group that includes
the Californian Monterey Bay species, the Massachusetts
S. hooperi, and the Italian H. calderi (Fig. 3). Until the New
England population can be sampled in greater detail, we will
retain the name S. carcinicola for the 10 Japanese colonies.
Hydractinia serrata (Fig. 2B). This species is very common in
the Bering Sea living on gastropods, hermit crabs, and crab
carapaces. One sample has been found as far south as Friday
Harbor, Washington, on a hermit crab. There is a second,
diverged mitochondrial lineage in the Bering Sea (46 H. serrata
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USA), that probably represents a cryptic species, but we were
unable to amplify EF1α from H. serrata so confirmation of
a second genealogical species in the Bering Sea will have to
wait. Like many other hydractiniids that live on hermit crabs,
H. serrata grows beyond the lip of the gastropod shell on
which it is found (See discussion of S. misakiensis/inabai
above, and H. polyclina below). In H. serrata, though, this
growth is taken to an extreme on the hermit crab Labidochirus
splendescens. This hermit crab is always found in association
with H. serrata, and inspection of the shell reveals that almost
all of the ‘shell’ is formed from the H. serrata colony, with
only a tiny gastropod shell at its centre (Abrams et al. 1986).
Colonies of H. serrata have been collected from Norway
(Cunningham, personal observation), but DNA sequences
are not available to confirm the species identity.
Allmanii/antonii/conchicola group (Figs 2B and 3). Also found
in the Bering Sea is Hydractinia allmanii (see Naumov 1969),
which is only found on hermit crabs (never on gastropods or
true crabs). This species does not extend the shell of its
hermit crab hosts, and is also found in Iceland (Figs 2B and 3).
This species has eumedusoids (Rees 1956; Schuchert 2001)
with four radial canals, as does the unusual H. antonii
(Miglietta 2006), which is also found in the Bering Sea. H.
antonii has a calcified skeleton that is very different from the
calcified skeleton in the distantly related hydractiniid Janaria
(see discussion below). In the same clade, though, is the
Japanese S. conchicola, which has entirely reduced sporosac
reproductive structures, and has opposite host-specificity to
H. allmanii, being only found on the living gastropod
Homalopoma sagarensis in Hokkaido, Japan (Yamada 1947;
Namikawa et al. 1992; Hirohito 1988).
To summarize, this species group is found in the coldtemperate region of the northern hemisphere, including yet
another likely species from the Bering Sea, 128 H. sp. USA
in Fig. 2B (H. sp. 1 in Table 2).
Milleri/laevispina/uchidai/altispina group (Figs 2B and 3).
Like the allmanii/conchicola group, this clade also has a mix of
taxa with eumedusoids retaining radial canals, and reduced
sporosacs with no trace of canals or other medusoid features.
This group is found in the northern and southern hemisphere,
including two species with eumedusoids (Figs 2B and 3): the
algae-dwelling Japanese S. reticulata and the eumedusoidbearing South African H. altispina, collected from a living
gastropod. These species are basal to a monophyletic clade
with sporosacs, including the Japanese H. uchidai from
consolidated sediment in Muroran, Hokkaido, the algaedwelling individual collected on algae in the Monterey Bay of
California (078 Hydractinia sp. in Figs 2B and 3).
The sporosac-bearing group includes H. milleri, which is
common on rocks in the intertidal zone of the Central Californian
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Pacific Coast (Bodega Bay). Comparison of 16S and EF1α
indicates a second genealogical species collected on a rock in
deeper waters off Catalina, California, and off of a floating
dock in Vancouver Canada (Figs 2B and 3). This second
milleri-like species is most likely H. laevispina (though called
H. californica in Cunningham & Buss 1993). H. laevispina is
known to live on non-motile substrates like rocks and barnacle
shells (Fraser 1922). Further sampling of both 16S and EF1α
will be required to establish the apparently overlapping ranges
of H. milleri and H. laevispina (Figs 2C, 3 and 7).
The echinata species group
The species group that has received the most attention as a
model system for laboratory studies of histo-recognition
(Lange et al. 1988; Buss & Grosberg 1990; Grosberg et al.
1996; Mokady & Buss 1997; Hart & Grosberg 1999;
Grosberg 2000; Cadavid et al. 2004, 1997; Müller et al. 2004;
Wilson & Grosberg 2004; Nicotra & Buss 2005; Powell et al.
2007) and laboratory studies is the complex of species in the
North Atlantic related to Hydractinia echinata (Fleming 1828).
The most important study species have been H. symbiolongicarpus
in North America (e.g. Levitan & Grosberg 1993; Grosberg
et al. 1997; Hart 1997; Buss & Yund 1988), and H. echinata
(e.g. Lange et al. 1989; Müller et al. 2004) in Europe. The 16S and
EF1α phylogenies agree that the sister group to the H. echinata clade is Janaria mirabilis from the Gulf of California. This
species has a highly calcified skeleton, but shares with the echinata
group the reliance on hermit crabs as hosts (Buss & Yund 1989).
The H. echinata species complex is almost entirely found
living on gastropod shells occupied by hermit crabs (Buss &
Yund 1989). Past efforts at distinguishing this species group
include tests of reproductive isolation, morphology and
allozymes (Buss & Yund 1989), DNA–DNA hybridization
(Cunningham et al. 1991), and 16S DNA (Cunningham &
Buss 1993). These studies found significant divergence
between American and European species, and deep divergence
between Hydractinia in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic
Coast. The current study confirms the divergence of the Gulf
of Mexico species, but sampling in Belgium and Denmark has
revealed a second European lineage that cannot be distinguished
from two American species.
Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus group. Buss & Yund (1989)
recognized that the Hydractinia found on the hermit crab
P. longicarpus in the Long Island Sound was distinct from the
Hydractinia found on the hermit crab P. pollicaris. It was thus
named H. symbiolongicarpus. Subsequent DNA–DNA
hybridization and 16S phylogenies found that the sister species
to H. symbiolongicarpus is an undescribed species found in the
Gulf of Mexico, referred to as H. [GM] in Cunningham et al.
(1991) and Cunningham & Buss (1993) and Ferrell (2004). More
extensive sampling of 16S confirms that H. symbiolongicarpus
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Fig. 7 Maximum likelihood phylogenetic hypothesis based on partial 16S mitochondrial gene of the data set containing sequences of
Hydractinia echinata-like species from the North Atlantic. Bootstrap notations are as in Fig. 3.
is found from Maine on down to North Carolina (Fig. 7,
Table 1, samples 41– 42, 73–75), and is distinct from several
samples of H. [GM] from the Gulf of Mexico (43– 45).
Echinata/symbiopollicaris/polyclina group. Buss & Yund (1989)
named the second species in the Long Island Sound
H. symbiopollicaris after its predominant host P. pollicaris. They
considered H. symbiopollicaris distinct from H. polyclina found
in Maine living on a third hermit crab species — P. acadianus
(Agassiz 1862) — based on the reduced mating success of these
two forms. Hydractinia symbiopollicaris and H. polyclina were
found by DNA–DNA hybridization and 16S to be significantly
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diverged from H. echinata collected in England and France
(Buss & Yund 1989).
The current study has found no genetic differences
between H. polyclina and H. symbiopollicaris in either the EF1α
or 16S (Figs 3 and 7). Preliminary studies of COI also found
no consistent differences, suggesting that the specific status
of H. symbiopollicaris is in doubt, and may perhaps be subsumed under the senior name of H. polyclina L. Agassiz 1862.
While the more extensive sampling in this study confirms
that H. echinata in France and Scotland are distinct from all
American Hydractinia species in both EF1α and 16S (Figs 3
and 7), further sampling in Belgium and Denmark (samples
010–012, 015, 017, 172, 173) has revealed populations that
are genetically indistinguishable from either H. symbiopollicaris
or H. polyclina (Figs 3 and 7).
Until further evidence is found, we conclude that the name
H. polyclina applies to a trans-Atlantic species. This trans-Atlantic
H. polyclina has been previously referred to as H. symbiopollicaris
when found on P. pollicaris shells in North America (Cunningham
et al. 1991; Cunningham & Buss 1993) and as H. echinata along
the North Sea Coast of Belgium and Denmark.
Geographical distribution
Of the major clades of Hydractiniidae analysed in this study,
11 are found in the Northwest Pacific (Japan), 8 in the Northeast
Pacific (Canada, California, Alaska, Aleutian Islands), 6 in the
Mediterranean Sea, 5 in the Northwest Atlantic, 3 in the
South Pacific (New Zealand), 2 in the South Atlantic (South
Africa), one in the Indian Ocean (Thailand). The North
Pacific and especially Japan is the region with the highest
diversity of Hydractiniidae.
The global distribution of clades appears to be affected to
some extent by the ability to disperse through swimming
medusae. The clade composed of species with swimming
medusae (genus Podocoryna) has representatives around the
world, from Japan to the Antipodes, Arctic and Atlantic. It
appears to have achieved this broad distribution relatively
rapidly, with a fairly recent ancestor compared to most other
major clades in Fig. 2. For example, the most recent ancestor
of its sister clade is twice as old (the Clava/S. fucicola/S. inermis
group). Even further evidence of the dispersal ability of free
swimming medusae is a very recent Podocoryna species group
is found in Iceland, New Zealand, and South Africa (P. borealis/
P. bella/P. sp. 1 SA).
On the other hand, H. polyclina is found on both sides of the
North Atlantic despite reproducing with non-swimming
sporosacs and being found living on hermit crabs. This is
most likely a case of rafting by the host hermit crabs on algal
rafts (Wares & Cunningham 2001). Algal rafting also explains
the trans-Atlantic range of Clava multicornis, which also has
non-swimming sporosacs, but is usually found living directly
on seaweed. Other species groups lacking swimming larvae
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are broadly distributed geographically even in the absence of
swimming medusae (e.g. the H. allmanii/S. conchicola group, the
S. hooperi (S. carcinicola group)). In these cases, the main explanation for their broad range appears to be their relatively old age.
Concluding remarks
This study shows the efficacy of using a combination of
mitochondrial and nuclear markers to begin to untangle species
complexes in the morphologically plastic Hydrozoa. One
immediate contribution is to identify the correct names to be
used for the species most often used as model organisms for
ecological, physiological and developmental studies. Most
studies of Atlantic Podocoryna have referred to P. carnea. In America,
most of these studies have been carried out on material that
should be referred to as P. americana (e.g. Cunningham &
Buss 1993; Bridge et al. 2004; Baumann & Buss 2008;
Masuda-Nakagawa et al. 2000), and in Europe, the studies by
Schmid’s group have been carried out on P. exigua. Because of
the work of Buss & Yund (1989), material in American studies
have been correctly identified as H. symbiolongicarpus or
H. polyclina. In Europe, where Hydractinia is most widely used
as a model organism, the situation is very complicated. An essay
on H. echinata as a model organism (Frank et al. 2001)
mentions that H. echinata can be obtained from laboratories
in Plymouth, England, Roscoff France, and Helgoland
Germany. Our study shows that these represent two different
species: H. echinata (Plymouth and Roscoff) and H. polyclina
(Helgoland, Germany).
Few of the taxa we defined were not monophyletic, but had
fixed differences between them (e.g. Stylactaria multigranosi and
S. misakiensis). In another case the mitochondrial and nuclear genes
did not agree in the identifications of taxa (i.e. S. hooperi from
East and West California). Besides these few exceptions, the criterion of monophyly we adopted worked well in defining taxa.
Finally, this work sets the stage for a generic revision of the
Hydractiniidae. The type for the Family is Hydractinia echinata
(Fleming 1828). While much of the phylogeny is unresolved,
it appears that the closest relatives to the H. echinata clade are
two morphologically very distinctive genera: Hydrissa and
Janaria (the latter having a fully-calcified skeleton. This
means that the proposal by Bouillon et al. (1997), Boero et al.
(1998) and Bouillon et al. (2006) to collapse Hydractinia, Stylactaria
and Podocoryna into the single genus of ‘Hydractinia’ is not
practical without eliminating clearly distinct genera such as
Janaria. This means that several new monophyletic genera
will have to be named on the basis of more intensive phylogenetic
analysis and more sequence data.
Acknowledgements
This work would have not been possible without the tremendous
help of many people who assisted in the field and/or sent
specimens. We are especially grateful to, H. Namikawa,
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S. Piraino, F. Boero, A. Govindarajan, A. Lindner, D. Calder,
A. Brinkmann-Voss, L.A. Henry and S. Cairns for providing
samples and/or helping in the field. C. Gravili helped with
bibliographic aspects of the article. MPM is grateful to Y.
and Y. Hirano for their tremendous support in Japan, to
L. McNelly for help in the laboratory, and to A. Faucci.
S. Piraino, D. Calder, A. Lindner, F. Boero, H. Namikawa
for discussion and suggestions at different stages of this
work.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation
PEET Grant No. DEB-9978131 A000 to CWC.
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Appendix 1 Besides the newly collected specimens (see Table 1), the following specimens from museum or private collections were examined
and used to compare and identify our material.
Species
specimen accession code
Museum
Hydrissa sodalis
Hydractinia cryptogonia
Hydractinia granulata
Hydractinia granulata
Podocorella minoi
Podocoryna hayamamensis
colony male, 29 May 1952
prep. 60 70
prep. 7496. Sp # 1682 — Paratype
sp # 1685 — Holotype
Hydr. 2569. Prep 4877-4880. Hyrd. # 3795
sp# 2573. Prep. 1345-13456. Hydr. # 2620. Prep # 8094-8110
— Paratype. Hydr. # 2600. Various slides
Holotype and Paratype
Holotype and Paratype
Hydr. 3757. Various prepared slides
Hydr. # 3787
Holotyype. Prep. 88.99. Hydr. 3022# 8687 — Paratype. Various
prepared slides
Hydr. 3888 — Paratype, Hydr 3888 (eumeduoids),
Hydr. 3888 prep 10499-10495. Hydr. 1748. Paratype. Hydr 1759
Hydr. 1723, Paratype. Hydr 1722, Paratype
Prep. No 21211, 21 22. Hydr. 30017, Paratype
Hydr. 1725, 1730, 1724
H 408, H 481, H 2416, H 2751, 2433, 2442
H 407, H 1823, H 1853, H 2651, H 2553, H 3503,
H 87, H 88, H 97, H 123, 776R, CP 258, SAM 114B
H. 3504, H 2928
H 2695, H 389, TMI 61A, TME 61
H 3503, H 2416, FAL209D
H 1995
H 2356, H 2358, H 2883, H 2538, H 2357
H 503
H 1867, H 389
H 2654, H 92
H 1739, H 122
H97 CP332
Si15
USNM 25503
USNM 43525
USNM 71134
USNM 76888
USNM 70980
USNM 100198
USNM 42534
USNM 43897
USNM 89155
USNM 68775
USNM 42673
USNM 16535
C-8
C-8
L-28
L-28
L-29
Q-31
Q-31
Q-31
S-32
S-32
U-30
Santa Catalina, California, USA
Bodega Bay, California, USA
Coll: J. Marks
Bering sea
Hokkaido. Coll Shin Kubota
Various Speciemens and Localities
Various Speciemens and Localities
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Stylactaria halecii
Stylactaria misakiensis
Stylactaria spiralis
Stylactaria yerii
Stylactari brachiurae
Stylactaria inabai
Stylactaria monoon
Stylactaria reticulata
Stylactaria spinipapillaris
Hydrocorella africana
Hydractinia altispina
Hydractinia caffaria
Clavactinia multitentaculata
Hydractinia marsupalia
Hydractinia sp.
Hydractinia sp.
Clavactinia gallsensis
Clavactinia multitentaculata
Hydractinia kaffaria
Cyteis nassa
Hydractinia canalifera
Podocoryna carnea
Hydractinia polyclina
Hydractinia milleri
Hydractinia aggragata
Hydractinia sodalis
Hydractinia allmani
Hydractinia bayeri
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia echinata
Hydractinia sp.
Hydractinia sp.
Hydractinia bedofii ?
Hydractinia monocarpa
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia allmani
Hydractinia allmani/serrata
Hydractinia allmani
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractiniidae
Hydractinia serrata male/female
Hydractinia serrata female
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia allmani
Hydractinia californica
Hydractinia milleri
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia serrata
Hydractinia uchidai
Complete Hydractiniidae collection
Complete private collection
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Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Tschuba Museum — Japan
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Cape Town Natural History Museum — SA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Smithsonian Institute — DC — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Yale Peabody Museum — CT — USA
Royal Ontario Museum — Canada
Boero Laboratory — Italy
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