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Aglaophenia baggins Soto Angel & Pena Cantero 2017
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Description
Aglaophenia baggins Soto Àngel & Peña Cantero, 2017
(Fig. 15a)
Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-33, one cormoid, c. 42 mm high, with corbulae; 48-34, three cormoids, up to 45 mm high, with corbulae.
Remarks. Recently described species, whose finding constituted the first evidence of the genus for any polar region and the first report of the family from Antarctic waters (see Soto Àngel & Peña Cantero 2017b).
Ecology and distribution. Reported at depths from 62 to 116 m. Only known for now from the Cape Norvegia region, in the Weddell Sea.
Notes
Published as part of Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4570 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Campanulariidae
- Genus
- Aglaophenia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Soto Angel & Pena Cantero
- Species
- baggins
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aglaophenia baggins Angel, 2017 sec. Soto & Peña, 2019
References
- Soto Angel, J. J. & Pena Cantero, A. L. (2017 b) Inhabitant or visitor? Unexpected finding of Aglaophenia (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) in Antarctic waters. Antarctic Science, 21, 331 - 339. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0954102017000049