Plumularioid hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off New Caledonia collected during KANACONO and KANADEEP expeditions of the French Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos Program
Author
Galea, Horia R.
DE5AC672-0243-46F2-A910-AFF4E91A4C5D
Hydrozoan Research Laboratory, 405 Chemin Les Gatiers, 83170 Tourves, France. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Terra, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milano, Italy. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Marine and High Education (MaRHE) Center, 12030 Faafu Magoodhoo, Republic of the Maldives.
horia.galea@gmail.com
Author
Maggioni, Davide
2A321960-E973-4742-B908-4394C0B9AF43
davide.maggioni@unimib.it
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-08-26
708
1
58
journal article
21028
10.5852/ejt.2020.708
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Aglaophenia howensis
Briggs, 1918
Aglaophenia howensis
– 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
•
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
•
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
.
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).