Candelabrum tentaculatum

Candelabrum tentaculatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Medusozoa
Class: Hydrozoa
Subclass: Hydroidolina
Order: Anthoathecata
Suborder: Aplanulata
Family: Candelabridae
Genus: Candelabrum
Species: C. tentaculatum
Binomial name
Candelabrum tentaculatum
(Millard, 1966)

Candelabrum tentaculatum, also called the dreadlocks hydroid or calamari hydroid, is a sessile marine hydroid, that is found off the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. [1][2]

Description

Naked cylindrical hydranth up to about 70mm long, covered by densely packed short capitate tentacles. Basal part carries a single whorl of about 17 long unbranched blastostyles, with gonophores near the hydranth.[1]

Species range

Endemic to South Africa, known only from the Cape Peninsula[1][2] and Port Elizabeth in 10 to 30 m of water.[2]

Identification

Synonym: Myriothela tentaculata Millard 1966.

Pale off-white slightly tapering cylindrical certral part with rounded tip, covered with very short rounded tentacles. The base has a ring of long floppy reddish tentacles that drape over the substrate.

Natural history

Often found on pore-plated false corals Laminopora jellyae.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Millard, N.A.H. 1975. Monograph on the Hydroida of Southern Africa. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 68:1-513
  2. 1 2 3 4 Jones, Georgina. (2008), Marine animals of the Cape Peninsula Southern Underwater Research Group Press, Cape Town. ISBN 978-0-620-41639-9


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