Hydrozoa from Salento Peninsula (Apulia, Italy)
Citation
Gravili, C., De Vito D., Di Camillo C.G., Martell L., Piraino S., Boero F. (2015) Hydrozoa from Salento Peninsula (Apulia, Italy). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5603
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Gravili, Cinzia Availability: Restricted
The data are withheld from general circulation and disclosure but access may be obtained on a case-by-case basis through negotiation Description
The majority of Hydrozoa is represented by not readily noticeable, small species. In recent decades, however, taxonomic knowledge of the group has increased worldwide, with a significant number of investigations focused on the Mediterranean Sea. Over more than two decades, 115 species of hydrozoans were recorded from coastal waters along nearly 300 km of the Salento Peninsula (Apulia, Italy). For each species, records from different collections were merged into single sheets of a general database. more
For each species, the following information is reported: description, cnidome, biology, occurrence in Salento, worldwide distribution, and bibliography. Descriptions refer to the benthic hydroid stage and, when present, also to the planktonic medusa stage. The 115 species of Hydrozoa, recorded along the Salento coastline, represent 25% of the Mediterranean Hydrozoa fauna (totaling 461 species), and nearly 3% of 3,702 world's known species covered in a recent monograph. Four species are non-indigenous, three of them with invasive behavior (Clytia hummelincki, Clytia linearis, and Eudendrium carneum), and one species now very common (Eudendrium merulum) in Salento. The complete life cycle of Clytia paulensis (Vanhöffen, 1910) is described for the first time. Scope Themes: Biology > Invertebrates Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Invasive species, MED: Apulia, Hydrozoa Geographical coverage MED: Apulia Temporal coverage
1988 - 2011 Taxonomic coverage
Hydrozoa [WoRMS]
Contributors
University of Salento; Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali (DiSTeBA), more, data creator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences (CoNISMa), more, data creator
Polytechnic University of Marche; Faculty of Sciences; Department of Marine Sciences, more, data creator
Publication
Based on this dataset
Gravili, C. et al. (2015). Missing species among Mediterranean non-Siphonophoran Hydrozoa. Biodivers. Conserv. 24(6): 1329-1357. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0859-y, more
Describing this dataset
Gravili, C. et al. (2015). The non-Siphonophoran Hydrozoa (Cnidaria) of Salento, Italy with notes on their life-cycles: an illustrated guide. Zootaxa 3908(1): 1-187. http://hdl.handle.net/10.11646/zootaxa.3908.1.1 , more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2017-02-10
Information last updated: 2022-08-09
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