Zygophylax levinseni

• Main Authors: Gil, Marta, Ramil, Fran, Agís, José Ansín
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Lafoeidae; Zygophylax; Zygophylax levinseni; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Iceland; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4426119; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4426119

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). 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 426, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4425132