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Modeeria rotunda
Creators
- 1. Vigo - Centro de Investigación Mariña, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar, Universidade de Vigo, Spain. & Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Spain.
- 2. Vigo - Centro de Investigación Mariña, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar, Universidade de Vigo, Spain.
Description
Modeeria rotunda (Quoy & Gaimard, 1827)
Dianeae rotunda Quoy & Gaimard, 1827: 181–182, pl. 6a figs 1–2.
Modeeria rotunda – Millard 1975: 137–138, fig. 45a. — Ramil & Vervoort 1992: 29–32, fig. 4a–b.
Material examinedSOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN • 1 colony, growing on Eudendrium ramosum, without gonothecae; Vema Seamount, stn Dive 3; 71–935 m depth; 31 Jan. 2015; SEAFO-2015 leg.; SEAFO-2015-40708.
DistributionModeeria rotunda is a cosmopolitan species (Ramil & Vervoort 1992; Vervoort 2006). In the Southeast Atlantic, it was reported from Namibia (Gili et al. 1989) and also from the east coast of South Africa to Mozambique (Millard 1975). Its bathymetric distribution extends from 0.5 to 1575 m (Gil 2017).
Notes
Published as part of Gil, Marta & Ramil, Fran, 2021, Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Vema and Valdivia seamounts (SE Atlantic), pp. 49-96 in European Journal of Taxonomy 758 on page 59, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.758.1425, http://zenodo.org/record/5088125
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SEAFO
- Event date
- 2015-01-31
- Family
- Tiarannidae
- Genus
- Modeeria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- SEAFO-2015-40708
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Quoy & Gaimard
- Species
- rotunda
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-01-31
- Taxonomic concept label
- Modeeria rotunda (Quoy, 1827) sec. Gil & Ramil, 2021
References
- Quoy J. R. C. & Gaimard J. P. 1827. Observations zoologiques faites a bord de l' Astrolabe, en mai 1826, dans le Detroit de Gibraltar. Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie 10: 5 - 21, 172 - 193, 225 - 239.
- Ramil F. & Vervoort W. 1992. Report on the Hydroida collected by the " BALGIM " expedition in and around the Strait of Gibraltar. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 277: 1 - 262.
- Vervoort W. 2006. Leptolida (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) collected during the CANCAP and Mauritania- II expeditions of the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands [Anthoathecata, various families of Leptothecata and addenda]. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 80 (1): 181 - 318.
- Gili J. M., Vervoort W. & Pages F. 1989. Hydroids from the West African coast: Guinea Bissau, Namibia and South Africa. Scientia Marina 53 (1): 67 - 112.