<i>Similiclava nivea</i> (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Similiclavidae): a new family, genus and species of athecate hydroid from the Pacific coast of North America
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The hydroid Similiclava nivea, gen. nov., sp. nov., is described from colonies collected in nearshore waters of southern British Columbia, Canada. It has been observed by divers, and recorded as Clava sp., several hundred times at locations between southeast Alaska and southern Oregon, USA. While resembling the hydractiniid Clava multicornis, tentacles of S. nivea are arranged in two close whorls in extended hydranths rather than being scattered over the distal end of the hydranth. Moreover, the hypostome is dome-shaped to flattened instead of being proboscidiform. Similiclava nivea also resembles species of the hydractiniid genera Stylactaria, Hydractinia and Podocoryna, but differs in being monomorphic, in lacking spines on the hydrorhiza and in having numerous (as many as 50 or more) sporosacs borne in a broad whorl below the tentacles on normal hydranths. Molecular analysis using the mitochondrial 16S gene sequences reveals that S. nivea is closer to Clathrozoellidae than to Hydractiniidae, although it is clearly distinct from both. A new family, Similiclavidae, is established to accommodate the species. Hydroids of S. nivea were observed at relatively shallow depths (10–30 m) on rocks and epibiota attached to rocky substrates. Colonies are conspicuous because of the relatively large surface area they occupy (up to 20 cm across, and in aggregations often exceeding 100 or more hydranths) together with the height (about 15 mm high when extended) and striking white colour of living hydranths. The cnidome consists of desmonemes, microbasic euryteles and microbasic mastigophores. A substrate generalist observed on rocks, algae, sponges, barnacles, bryozoans and other hydroids in cold-temperate waters, S. nivea is most prevalent in shallow subtidal areas swept by tidal currents.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2691E02E-7E14-4820-8D91-41D9E7E8BF62
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".