Lafoea dumosa ...

• Main Authors: Soto, Joan J., Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Lafoeidae; Lafoea; Lafoea dumosa; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934918; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5934918

Lafoea dumosa (Fleming, 1820) (Fig. 6 i–j) Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-50, one colony, up to 55 mm high; 48-194, one colony, up to 50 mm high; 48- 276, one colony, up to 10 mm high, on Sc. nana; 48-297, one colony, up to 15 mm high, on B. subrufa and ascidian; ANT XVII/3: 111-5, one colony, up to 35 mm high, on O. terranovae; 111-6, one colony, up to 40 mm high; 111-18, some stems, up to 40 mm high, on O. terranovae and polychaete tube; 111-19, one colony, up to 20 mm high, on Sc. unifurcata; ANT XXI/2: PS65/121, some stems, up to 40 mm high, on Sc. nana and Sy. curvatus; PS65/278, one colony, up to 40 mm high, on H. secundum; PS65/279, one colony, up to 10 mm high, on sponge. Remarks. Lafoea dumosa has been considered a cosmopolitan species with a wide range of variation in colony shape, pedicel length and hydrothecal morphology [see Schuchert (2001) for a detailed account on the taxonomic history of the species]. Some authors included Lafoea fruticosa (Sars, 1851) and Lafoea gracillima (Alder, 1856) ... : Published as part of Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4570 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527 ...