Acryptolaria operculata Stepanjants 1979 ...

• Main Authors: Peña Cantero, Álvaro L., Vervoort, Willem
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Lafoeidae; Acryptolaria; Acryptolaria operculata; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4551922; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.4551922

Acryptolaria cf. operculata Stepanjants, 1979 (Figs 22; 30; Table 23) Acryptolaria operculata Stepanjants, 1979: 52, pl. 9 fig. 5A, B. — Peña Cantero et al. 2007: 258-261, figs 12, 16D, 18D, 19E, tab. XII. Acryptolaria patagonica El Beshbeeshy, 1991: 67-70, fig. 14. ? Acryptolaria patagonica – Watson 2003: 162, 163, fig. 12A-C. — Vervoort & Watson 2003: 51-53, fig. 7A-G. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Norfolk Ridge. BIOCAL 1, stn DW 70, 23°24.700’- 23°25.650’S, 167°53.650’- 167°52.700’E, 965 m, 4.IX.1985, 1 stem c. 8 mm high and a few stolonal hydrothecae on coral (MNHN-Hy.2009-0207). CHALCAL 2, stn DW 76, 23°40.50’S, 167°45.20’E, 470 m, 30.X.1986, 1 stem c. 14 mm high (RMNH-Coel. no. 31523). ECOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION. — Acryptolaria operculata has been collected from depths between 98 and 980 m (El Beshbeeshy1991).Its confirmed known distribution includes sub-Antarctic waters of the Patagonian shelf (Stepanjants 1979; El Beshbeeshy 1991). Our material originates from the Norfolk Ridge area where it was collected ... : Published as part of Peña Cantero, Álvaro L. & Vervoort, Willem, 2010, Species of Acryptolaria Norman, 1875 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Lafoeidae) collected in the Western Pacific by various French expeditions, with the description of nineteen new species, pp. 267-332 in Zoosystema 32 (2) on pages 311-312, DOI: 10.5252/z2010n2a5, http://zenodo.org/record/4521008 ...