Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Mauritanian Coral Mounds
Author
Gil, Marta
Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar e Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM-UVigo), Universidade de Vigo. Campus Lagoas-Marcosende. 36310 Vigo. Spain. & Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo. Subida Radio Faro 50. 36390 Vigo. Spain.
Author
Ramil, Fran
Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar e Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM-UVigo), Universidade de Vigo. Campus Lagoas-Marcosende. 36310 Vigo. Spain. & framil @ uvigo. es
Author
Agís, José Ansín
Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Facultade de Ciencias do Mar e Centro de Investigación Mariña (CIM-UVigo), Universidade de Vigo. Campus Lagoas-Marcosende. 36310 Vigo. Spain. & ansinjose @ gmail. com
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-16
4878
3
412
466
journal article
7931
10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.2
288c6fc9-269b-468f-8811-d79d4350f6e4
1175-5326
4425132
4F59F5B2-CFDB-4819-AF83-0EF232328F8D
Zygophylax levinseni
(
Saemundsson, 1911
)
Zygophylax levinseni
:
Ramil & Vervoort, 1992: 78–82
, figs. 18a–d, 19a–f;
Calder & Vervoort, 1998: 35–37
, fig. 17a–c;
Schuchert, 2001: 71–72
;
Vervoort, 2006: 240–242
, fig. 16.
Material examined.
MAURIT-1011, stn
MUDR20
,
16º08´11”N
,
16º56´08”W
,
405 m
,
7-XII-2010
: one fragment, without coppiniae
.
Biology.
This species was collected from bottoms of
L. pertusa
and
M. oculata
(
Altuna Prados & Álvarez Claudio 1994
)
and was found growing on a sponge,
Acryptolaria longitheca
(
Allman, 1877
) (
Calder & Vervoort 1998
)
and a gorgonian axis (
Vervoort 2006
). Coppiniae have been found only in December (
Ramil & Vervoort 1992
).
Distribution.
Zygophylax levinseni
has a Northeast Atlantic distribution, from South of
Iceland
to south of
Cape Verde
Islands, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (
Schuchert 2001
;
Vervoort 2006
). The records of the species were summarised by
Vervoort (2006)
. In West Africa, it was collected from
Morocco
(
Ramil & Vervoort 1992
),
Mauritania
(
Gil & Ramil 2017a
) and
Cape Verde
Islands (
Vervoort 2006
). Its bathymetric distribution is between 183 (
Altuna Prados & Álvarez Claudio 1994
) and
3647 m
(
Ramil & Vervoort 1992
).
Our material was obtained from a depth of
405 m
.
Remarks.
Although our colony is only a fragment, it is consistent with the material described by
Ramil & Vervoort (1992)
.