Author(s): Fayez A.M. Shoukr and Mohamed E. Abdel-Hamid
Article publication date: 1987-12-01
Vol. 5 No. 3 (yearly), pp. 455-462.
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Keywords
Tubularia crocea, morphology, Egypt
Abstract
The gymnoblastic hydroid Tubularia crocea (Agassiz, 1862) was prominent among fouling communities in the Egyptian harbours at Alexandria, Port-Saied and Port-Taufiq. This hydroid showed morphological variation in the number of oral and aboral tentacles, and gonophores. These variables were significantly and positively correlated with the length of the hydroid. In spite of the morphological variation of this species, its identification is reliable and there is no need to construct a new species.