Published May 12, 2021 | Version v1
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Conopora Moseley 1879

  • 1. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia " - CONICET-Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C 1405 DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 2. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution- 10 th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20560 USA cairnss @ si. edu; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7209 - 9271
  • 3. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia " - CONICET-Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C 1405 DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina & pablopench @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2043 - 8814
  • 4. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia " - CONICET-Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C 1405 DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina & dlauretta @ gmail. com; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5344 - 2425

Description

Genus Conopora Moseley, 1879

Type species. Conopora tenuis Moseley, 1879

Included species. Conopora adeta Cairns; C. alloporoides † Cairns; C. arborescens † Nielsen; C. beebei Cairns; C. bifacialis Cairns; C. cactos Cairns; C. candelabrum Cairns; C. cardata Cairns; C. crassisepta Cairns; C. croca Cairns; C. dura Hickson & England; C. forticula † Cairns; C. gigantea Cairns; C. laevis (Studer); C. mariae † Stolarski; C. sola Cairns & Zibrowius; C. tenuiramus Cairns & Zibrowius; C. tetrastichopora Cairns; C. unifacialis Cairns; C. verrucosa (Studer)

Distribution. Indo-West Pacific, Subantarctic and Antarctic regions, 95–2355 m (see Cairns 2015). New record off Mar del Plata, 1275–1398 m

Diagnosis. See Cairns 2015.

Notes

Published as part of Bernal, M. C., Cairns, S. D., Penchaszadeh, P. E. & Lauretta, D., 2021, Stylasterids (Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from Mar del Plata submarine canyon and adjacent area (southwestern Atlantic), with a key to the species off Argentina, pp. 401-452 in Zootaxa 4969 (3) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4969.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4751258

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Stylasteridae
Genus
Conopora
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anthoathecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Moseley
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Conopora Moseley, 1879 sec. Bernal, Cairns, Penchaszadeh & Lauretta, 2021

References

  • Moseley, H. N. 1879 (1878) On the structure of the Stylasteridae, a family of the hydroid stony corals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 169, 425 - 503. https: // doi. org / 10.1098 / rstl. 1878.0014.
  • Cairns, S. D. (2015) Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) of the New Caledonian region. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 28, 1 - 361.