Lafoeina tenuis

Moura, Carlos J., 2015, The hydrozoan fauna (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the peaks of the Ormonde and Gettysburg seamounts (Gorringe Bank, NE Atlantic), Zootaxa 3972 (2), pp. 148-180 : 155-157

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.2.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5622498
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scientific name	Lafoeina tenuis
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Lafoeina tenuis View in CoL

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Lafoeina tenuis G. O. Sars, 1874: 95 View in CoL , 119–121, pl. 5 figs. 1–5.— Cornelius, 1995a: 197 –199, fig. 45.— Vervoort, 2006: 225 –226, figs. 7 no. 4; 8 no. 1; 10d–i.— Bouillon et al., 2004: 131, figs. 69E–G.

Material studied. Ormonde, stn 1: few polyps, on cauli of Zonaria tournefortii , DBUA 1522.07. Ormonde, stn 2: few polyps, on Zonaria tournefortii , DBUA 1522.01. Ormonde, stn 3: very frequent, on cauli of Zonaria tournefortii and calcified Bryozoa, DBUA 1522.02. Ormonde, stn 4: frequent, covering all over some Zonaria tournefortii , DBUA 1522.03. Gettysburg, stn 5: few polyps, on Zonaria tournefortii , DBUA 1522.04. Gettysburg, stn 6: few polyps, on two species of algae. Gettysburg, stn 7: frequent on algae, DBUA 1522.06. Gettysburg, stn 8: few polyps, on Zonaria tournefortii . Gettysburg, stn 9: very frequent on Zonaria tournefortii , also overgrowing Sertularella ellisii , DBUA 1522.08. Gettysburg, stn 10: very abundant; on algae and colonies of Sertularella gayi and S. ellisii , DBUA 1522.09.

Reported distribution. Northeast Atlantic.—Widely distributed in the Northeast Atlantic: Azores ( Cornelius 1992, 1995a; Vervoort 2006), Madeira ( Cornelius 1995a), Gorringe (present study), mainland Portugal (personal observation), Spain (García-Corrales et al. 1979; Ramil 1988; Altuna & García-Carrascosa 1990; Alvarez-Claudio 1993; Altuna 1994a, b; Álvarez-Claudio & Anadón 1995; Medel & López-González 1996; Ramil et al. 1998a); Bay of Biscay ( Gourret 1906); British Isles (e.g. Hincks 1868; Cornelius 1995a; Howson & Picton 1997; France ( Cornelius 1995a); Iceland ( Hincks 1874); Norway ( Sars 1869, 1874; Hincks 1874; Christiansen 1972); Sweden ( Jagerskiold 1971; Calder 2012); Baltic Sea/North Sea ( Broch 1928).

Mediterranean.—Widely spread across the western Mediterranean: Spain ( Gili 1986; García Carrascosa 1981; Roca 1986); France ( Picard 1951b; Bellan-Santini 1970; Galea 2007), and Italy (e.g. Rossi 1961; Montanari & Morri 1977; Morri 1979, 1980, 1981). Recently recorded in the Eastern Mediterranean ( Morri et al. 2009), although records of L. tenuis from the Mediterranean may correspond to a different species— Lafoeina vilaevelebiti Hadži, 1917 (e.g. Cornelius 1995a; Vervoort 2006).

Elsewhere.—Boreal distribution ( Boero & Bouillon, 1993). Sometimes recorded in the NW Atlantic (e.g. Kramp 1932; Calder 2003), Gulf of México ( Deevey 1954), Caribbean ( Vervoort 1968) and Arctic seas (e.g. Linko 1912; Berezina 1948; Brotskaya et al. 1963; Sirenko 2001). However, many authors question the possibility of cryptic diversity within this nominal morphologically simple species (e.g. Cornelius 1995a; Schuchert 2001a; Vervoort 2006).