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Lepidopora Pourtales 1871

  • 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 Lepidopora Pourtalès, 1871

Type species. Errina glabra Pourtalès, 1867

Included species. Lepidopora acrolophos Cairns; L. biserialis Cairns; L. carinata (Pourtalès); L. clavigera Cairns; L. concatenata Cairns; L. cryptocymas Cairns; L. decipiens (Boschma); L. dendrostylus Cairns; L. diffusa Boschma; L. eburnea (Calvet); L. fistulosa † Cairns; L. gelanes Cairns; L. glabra (Pourtalès); L. granulosa (Cairns); L. iwasakii Pica & Puce; L. leptoclados Cairns; L. polygonalis Cairns; L. polystichopora Cairns; L. pusilla Cairns; L. sarmentosa Boschma; L. spinosa Cairns; L. symmetrica Cairns; L. unicaulis Cairns.

Distribution. New Caledonia, Barbados, Lesser Antilles, the Azores, Strait of Florida, Cuba, New Zealand, Antarctica, South Africa, the Galápagos Islands, Japan, Patagonia, 47–2330 m (see Río Iglesias et al. 2012 and Pica et al. 2018). New record off Mar del Plata, 1200 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 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4969.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4751258

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References

  • Pourtales, L. F. (1871) Deep-sea corals. Illustrated catalog of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard, 4, 1 - 93.
  • Pourtales, L. F. (1867) Contributions to the fauna of the Gulf Stream at great depths. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1 (6), 103 - 120.
  • Rio Iglesias, J. L., Acosta, Yepes J., Cristobo Rodriguez, J., Martinez Portela, J., Parra Descalzo, S., Tel E., Vinas Dieguez, L., Munoz Recio, A., Vilela Perez, R., Jimenez, E. E., Ibarrola, T. P., Rios Lopez, P., Almon Pazos, B., Blanco Perez, R., Murillo Perez, J., Polonio Povedano, V., Fernandez Feijoo, J., Cabanas, J. M., Gago Pineiro, J. M., Gonzalez-Nuevo Gonzales, G., Cabrero Rodriguez, A., Besada Montenegro, M. V., Schultze Prado, F., Franco Hernandez, A., Bargiela Barros, J. & Garcia Blanco, X. (2012) Estudio de los ecosistemas marinos vulnerables en aguas internacionales del Atlantico sudoccidental. Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia. Temas de Oceanografia 6, Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, 283 pp.
  • Pica, D., Bavestrello, G. & Puce, S. (2018) First Record of Lepidopora (Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the North Pacific Ocean with Description of a New Species. Pacific Science, 72 (2), 245 - 250. https: // doi. org / 10.2984 / 72.2.6.
  • Cairns, S. D. (2015) Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) of the New Caledonian region. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 28, 1 - 361.