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Watson, J.E., 2003. Encounter 2002 Expedition to the Isles of St Francis, South Australia: Annotated list of shallow water hydroids with description of a new species of Campanularia. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 127 Part 2 Special Iss. SI: 243-263.
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Forty-five species including one new species are recorded. The hydroid fauna of shallow coastal reef surrounding St Francis Island to a depth of 25 m is predominantly cryptic due to exposure to wave action and mechanical abrasion from algal stipes in the thick algal forest and grazing by fish. Favoured substrates are small red algal species, the brown fucoid Sargassum, the solitary ascidian Herdmania momus, sponges and seagrasses. Larger aglaopheniid species and Solanderia fusca were epilithic, growing in sheltered caverns and on rock walls. Fifty, eight percent of the hydroids recorded are endemic to Australia, 30% have a southern hemisphere distribution and 9% are cosmopolitan.
Systematics, Taxonomy
Zoogeography, Biogeography (generalities), Geographic distribution
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