Aglaophenia lophocarpa Allman, 1877

Gil, Marta, Ramil, Fran & Agís, José Ansín, 2020, Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Mauritanian Coral Mounds, Zootaxa 4878 (3), pp. 412-466 : 431

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4426136

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE879D-1C02-3361-46B2-C793A3176FBB

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scientific name

Aglaophenia lophocarpa Allman, 1877
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Aglaophenia lophocarpa Allman, 1877 View in CoL

Aglaophenia lophocarpa: Svoboda, 1979: 82–86 View in CoL , figs. 12e, 13e, 15e, 16e; Svoboda & Cornelius, 1991: 22–23, fig. 5; Ramil & Vervoort, 1992: 93–94, fig. 23B–C; Ansín Agís et al., 2001: 40–48, figs. 22–25; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa, 2002: 88–89, fig. 17D.

Material examined. MAURIT-0911, stn MUDR01 , 16º08´24”N, 16º57´12”W, 488 m, 5-XII-2009: 35 colonies, four with corbulae GoogleMaps .

MAURIT-0911, stn MUDR02 , 16º08´50”N, 16º57´01”W, 462 m, 5-XII-2009: six colonies, without corbulae GoogleMaps .

MAURIT-1011, stn MUDR20 , 16º08´11”N, 16º56´08”W, 405 m, 7-XII-2010: ten colonies 20–47 mm high, three with corbulae GoogleMaps .

MSM 16 View Materials /3, stn GeoB 14801–1, BG, 20°14.762’N, 17°40.173’W, 568 m, 3-XI-2010: six colonies 14–17 mm high, no corbulae GoogleMaps .

MSM 16 View Materials /3, stn GeoB 14903–1, GKG, 17°32.853’N, 16°39.700’W, 414 m, 15-XI-2010: three colonies 12–31 mm high, on ascidians, without corbulae GoogleMaps .

MSM 16/3, stn GeoB 14914–1, ROV, 17°08.203’– 17°07.898’N, 16°49.478’– 16°48.878’W, 417–514 m, 17.XI.2010: three colonies 5–22 mm high, one on the bivalve Acesta excavata , and other on Sertularella gayi , no corbulae.

Biology. Colonies of A. lophocarpa have been found growing on hard substrata, algae, on other hydroids, old stems of antipatharians and a bivalve of the genus Malleus ( Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002; Vervoort 2006). Colonies with gonothecae have been found throughout the year, except in November ( Ansín Agís et al. 2001); fertile material was reported by Gil & Ramil (2017a) in November in Mauritania.

In our material, colonies were found growing on the bivalve A. excavata , S. gayi and ascidians. Corbulae were observed in December.

Distribution. Aglaophenia lophocarpa is an amphi-Atlantic species with a wide bathymetric distribution between 0 and 2700 m ( Ansín Agís et al. 2001; Vervoort 2006). In the East Atlantic, it has been reported from the French Channel to Guinea-Bissau, including the Mediterranean Sea. On the coast of West Africa, it was collected specifically from Morocco ( Ramil & Vervoort 1992), Canary Islands ( Vervoort 2006), Mauritania ( Ansín Agís et al. 2001; Vervoort 2006; Gil & Ramil 2017a), Cape Verde Archipelago ( Ansín Agís et al. 2001) and Guinea-Bissau ( Gili et al. 1989).

Our material was collected from depths of 405 to 568 m.

Remarks. Aglaophenia lophocarpa is a well-known species in Northwest Africa and does not require further comments.

MSM

Marine Science Museum, Tokai Univ.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

Order

Leptothecata

Family

Aglaopheniidae

Genus

Aglaophenia

Loc

Aglaophenia lophocarpa Allman, 1877

Gil, Marta, Ramil, Fran & Agís, José Ansín 2020
2020
Loc

Aglaophenia lophocarpa: Svoboda, 1979: 82–86

Pena Cantero, A. L. & Garcia Carrascosa, A. M. 2002: 88
Ansin Agis, J. & Ramil, F. & Vervoort, W. 2001: 40
Ramil, F. & Vervoort, W. 1992: 93
Svoboda, A. & Cornelius, P. F. S. 1991: 22
Svoboda 1979: 86
1979
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