Polyplumaria flabellata G. O. Sars 1874

• Main Authors: Gil, Marta, Ramil, Fran, Agís, José Ansín
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Plumulariidae; Polyplumaria; Polyplumaria flabellata; Norway; Ramos; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4426148; https://zenodo.org/record/4426148

Polyplumaria flabellata Sars, 1874 (Fig. 12C) Polyplumaria flabellata : Ramil & Vervoort, 1992: 193–197, fig. 50A–G; Cornelius, 1995b: 163–165, fig. 38, Ansín Agís et al ., 2001: 248–253, figs, 93–94. Material examined. MAURIT-0911, stn MUDR01, 16º08´24”N, 16º57´12”W, 488 m, 5-XII-2009: two colonies, one colony with gonothecae. MAURIT-0911, stn MUDR02, 16º08´50”N, 16º57´01”W, 462 m, 5-XII-2009: six colonies, without gonothecae. MAURIT-1011, stn MUDR19, 16º09´06”N, 16º56´50”W, 561 m, 7-XII-2010: two colonies, 48–63 mm high, one colony with gonothecae. MAURIT-1011, stn MUDR20, 16º08´11”N, 16º56´08”W, 405 m, 7-XII-2010: six colonies, 30–60 mm high, without gonothecae. MAURIT-1011, stn MUDR21, 16º28´13”N, 16º51´43”W, 522 m, 9-XII-2010: one colony 45 mm high, no gonothecae. Biology. Fertile colonies were found in March and between May and August (Ansín Agís et al. 2001). In our material, gonothecae were found in December. Distribution. An East Atlantic species distributed from Iceland and Norway to off the mouth of the Congo River and in the Alboran Sea, West Mediterranean (Ansín Agís et al . 2001). In West Africa, it was collected from Morocco (Kramp 1947; Patriti 1970; Ramil & Vervoort 1992), Mauritania (Gil & Ramil 2017a) and off the mouth of the Congo River (Vervoort 1966). Its bathymetric range extends from 47 to 2200 m (Ansín Agís et al . 2001). Our material was collected on the cold-water coral mound barrier from depths of 405 to 561 m. Remarks. The material obtained from the Mauritanian cold-water coral mound barrier was consistent with those described by Ramil & Vervoort (1992) and Ansín Agís et al. (2001) from Azores and Northwest Africa. : Published as part of Gil, Marta, Ramil, Fran & Agís, José Ansín, 2020, Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Mauritanian Coral Mounds, pp. 412-466 in Zootaxa 4878 (3) on page 435, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4425132 : {"references": ["Sars, G. O. (1874) Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges Hydroider. Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Kristiana, 1873, 91 - 150.", "Ramil, F. & Vervoort, W. (1992) Report on the Hydroida collected by the \" BALGIM \" expedition in and around the Strait of Gibraltar. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 277, 1 - 262.", "Cornelius, P. F. S. (1995 b) North-West European Thecate Hydroids and their Medusae. Part 2. Sertulariidae to Campanulariidae. Synopses of the British Fauna, New Series, 50, 1 - 386.", "Ansin Agis, J., Ramil, F. & Vervoort, W. (2001) Atlantic Leptolida (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) of the families Aglaopheniidae, Halopterididae, Kirchenpaueriidae and Plumulariidae collected during the CANCAP and Mauritania-II expeditions of the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands. Zoologische verhandelingen, Leiden, 333, 1 - 268.", "Kramp, P. L. (1947) Hydroids collected by the \" Skagerak \" expedition in the eastern Atlantic 1946. Goteborgs. Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhalles Handlingar, (B 6), 5 (8), 1 - 16.", "Patriti, G. (1970) Catalogue des cnidaires et ctenaires des cotes Atlantiques marocaines. Travaux de l'Institut Scientifique Cherifien, Serie Zoologique, 35, 1 - 149.", "Gil, M. & Ramil, F. (2017 a) Hydrozoans from Mauritanian Deep-Waters. In: Ramos, A., Ramil, F. & Sanz, J. L. (Eds.), Deep sea ecosystems off Mauritania: Researching marine biodiversity and habitats in West African Deep-waters. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 419 - 444. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 94 - 024 - 1023 - 5 _ 11"]}