Eudendrium album Nutting, 1898

PICTURES

SYNONYMY

Eudendrium fragile Motz-Kossowska, 1905

Eudendrium islandicum Schuchert, 2000

DESCRIPTION

Small, monosiphonic colonies irregularly branched arising from creeping stolons. Hydranths with 17-22 tentacles, large, rounded hypostome. Perisarc rather smooth (1). Male and female sporosacs on normal hydranths. Female gonophores, about six sporosacs develop in one whorl. Male gonophores (6-8) arise at the lower part of the hydranth in one whorl (2). Nematocysts on tentacles at distal end in rings. Small microbasic eurytele on tentacles; larger macrobasic eurytele, shaft in intact capsule in 4-5 coils.

DISTRIBUTION IN SVALBARD

Hornsund, Kong Karls Land

First record for the Svalbard waters

WORLD DISTRIBUTION

Mediterranean, North Atlantic

DEPTH

15-117 m

SUBSTRATE

Balanus sp.

REPRODUCTION

fixed gonophores

not seen in Svalbard collection