Lepidopora Pourtalès, 1871

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, Zootaxa 4969 (3), pp. 401-452 : 27

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.