Candelabrum tentaculatum

Candelabrum tentaculatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hydrozoa
Order:	Anthoathecata
Family:	Candelabridae
Genus:	Candelabrum
Species:	C. tentaculatum
Binomial name
	Candelabrum tentaculatum; (Millard, 1966)
Synonyms
	Myriothela tentaculata 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

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.

Small group off Clifton, Cape Town.
Large group off Oudekraal, Cape Town.
Candelabrum tentaculatum on Laminopora jellyae, off Hout Bay, Cape Town.

Natural history

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

References

1 2 3 Millard, N.A.H. 1975. Monograph on the Hydroida of Southern Africa. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 68:1-513
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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[Millard-1] 1 2 3 Millard, N.A.H. 1975. Monograph on the Hydroida of Southern Africa. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 68:1-513

[Jones-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