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Lafoea dumosa Fleming 1820

Description

Lafoea dumosa (Fleming, 1820)

Lafoea dumosa — Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2004: 2291, fig. 6F.

Material examined. Stn. RAS — 16.ii.2011, Ant.08/2011 (20–30 m): sterile colony with numerous stems, up to 1.8 cm high, on sponge (MHNG-INVE-79778).

Geographical distribution. A cosmopolitan species, whose Antarctic distribution was summarized by Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort (2004).

Notes

Published as part of Galea, Horia R. & Schories, Dirk, 2012, Some hydrozoans (Cnidaria) from King George Island, Antarctica, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 3321 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213236

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Lafoeidae
Genus
Lafoea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Fleming
Species
dumosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lafoea dumosa Fleming, 1820 sec. Galea & Schories, 2012

References

  • Pena Cantero, A. L., Svoboda, A. & Vervoort, W. (2004) Antarctic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) of the families Campanulinidae, Lafoeidae and Campanulariidae from recent Antarctic expeditions with RV Polarstern, with the description of a new species. Journal of Natural History, 38, 2269 - 2303.