Fauna of the Mediterranean Hydrozoa

By J. Bouillon, M. Medel, F. Pagés, J. Gili, F. Boero, C. Gravili. 2004

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This study provides a systematic account of the hydrozoan species collected up to now in the Mediterranean Sea. All species are described, illustrated and information on morphology and distribution is given for all of them. This work is the most complete fauna of hydrozoans made in the Mediterranean. The fauna includes planktonic hydromedusae, benthic polyps stages and the siphonophores. The Hydrozoa are taken as an example of inconspicuous taxa whose knowledge has greatly progressed in the last decades due to the scientific research of some specialists in the Mediterranean area. The number of species recorded in the Mediterranean almost doubled in the last thirty years and the number of new records is still increasing. The 457 species recorded in this study represents the 12% of the world known species. The fauna is completed with classification keys and a glossary of terms with the main purpose of facilitating the identification of all Meditrranean hydrozoan species

Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology

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In Environmental Chemistry

1. Daniel Pauly
2. Jennifer E. Purcell
3. F. Pagés
4. Adriana Zingone

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Argyro Zenetos
2. M. Çınar
3. C. Bianchi
4. E. Ballesteros
5. J. Gili
6. F. Boero
7. N. Streftaris
8. M. Gambi

In Paleontology

1. Daniel Pauly
2. Lucas Brotz
3. V. Fuentes
4. M. Çınar
5. J. Gili
6. D. Atienza
7. F. Pagés
8. Peter Schuchert

Citations in the corpus

• Biodiversity of the white coral bank off Cape Santa Maria di Leuca (Mediterranean Sea): An update (2010, background): “For the family Plumulariidae, N. antennina (Bouillon et al., 2004) was found on the SML living coral banks at 513 m.”
• DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity in marine hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from coastal and deep‐sea environments (2007, background): “Journal compilation © 2007 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters structures and presence of zooxanthellae are the only diagnostic features separating these three species (Bouillon et al. 2004).”
• The European athecate hydroids and their medusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria): Capitata Part 1 (2008, background): “Browne & Kramp (1939) and Kramp (1959, 1961, 1968) took up Hartlaub’s diagnosis, but modified the definition so that Staurocladia was differentiated from Eleutheria by the number of nematocyst clusters per tentacle (Eleutheria one, Staurocladia more than one) and the absence or presence of a brood-c”
• Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species (2005, background): “Siphonophora Muggiaea atlantica GAMULIN & KRŠINIĆ, 1999 According to BOUILLON et al., (2004), it is a neritic cosmopolitan species”
• Jellyfish populations in the Mediterranean Sea (2012, background): “The hydroid of this species is now one of the most abundant and widespread in the Mediterranean (BOUILLON et al. , 2004) .”
• Planktonic cnidarian distribution and feeding of Pelagia noctiluca in the NW Mediterranean Sea (2010, background): “This spatial pattern, characterized by increasing species diversity and abundance with distance from the coast, is a common trend in the northwestern Mediterranean (Gili et al., 1987a; Bouillon et al., 2004).”
• Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution (2010, background): “It is debatable whether Coryne eximia can be considered as alien species since the Mediterranean occurrence of this species seems to need re-confirmation (BOUILLON et al., 2004).”