Abstract
Few parts of the world offer a more absolute blank to the zoogeographer of marine hydroids than the Gulf coast of Texas. Although the marine biology of the western Gulf of Mexico is probably somewhat better known than that of western Australia or Ellesmere Island, it is a fact that systematic hydroid collecting has never been done in Texas, and the recent monograph of Fraser ('44) lists only three species from that State. In the collection of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the hydroids of which are now in my hands, there are 57 samples from 20 navigation buoys in Texas waters, but most of these samples contain nothing but Obelia dichotoma (Linnaeus), and the list of ten species is so small that separate publication would not be justified. An additional 25 samples from Texas and Louisiana, recently received from Joel W. Hedgpeth, have proved so interesting, however, that an account of the whole material seems warranted. Permission to use the Texas records from the Woods Hole collection in advance of the full report has generously been granted by Louis W. Hutchins.
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