Aglaophenia howensis Briggs, 1918

Galea, Horia R. & Maggioni, Davide, 2020, Plumularioid hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off New Caledonia collected during KANACONO and KANADEEP expeditions of the French Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos Program, European Journal of Taxonomy 708, pp. 1-58 : 5

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.708
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DDF28821-1A4A-4457-BB53-1696F3BFB7B2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4335866
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D92045-FF8C-FFF3-E650-215EC162FA63
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Aglaophenia howensis Briggs, 1918
status

Treatment

Aglaophenia howensis Briggs, 1918 View in CoL

Aglaophenia howensis View in CoL – Galea, 2020: figs 1a–b, 2.

Material examined

PACIFIC OCEAN • five colonies and fragments, 8.5–18 cm high, largest one bearing gonothecae; off New Caledonia, stn CP4787; 22°43′ S, 167°43′ E; 500–533 m; 29 Aug. 2016; KANACONO leg.; MNHN-IK-2015-563 GoogleMaps • 1 ca 9 cm high, sterile cormoid; off New Caledonia, stn DW4737; 22°45′ S, 167°42′ E; 387–456 m; 22 Aug. 2016; KANACONO leg.; MNHN-IK-2015-564 GoogleMaps • 1 ca 9 cm high, sterile cormoid; off New Caledonia, stn DW4736; 22°42′ S, 167°41′ E; 303–308 m; 22 Aug. 2016; KANACONO leg.; MNHN-IK-2015-565 GoogleMaps .

Remarks

This species was recently dealt with by Galea (2020).

Distribution

Scattered records from the Tasman Sea area, up to Norfolk Island in the north; New Caledonia (Galea 2020).

Copyright notice

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Hydrozoa
SubClass	Hydroidolina
Order	Leptothecata
Family	Aglaopheniidae
Genus	Aglaophenia