Lepidopora Pourtales 1871

• Main Authors: Bernal, M. C., Cairns, S. D., Penchaszadeh, P. E., Lauretta, D.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Anthoathecata; Stylasteridae; Lepidopora; Patagonia; New Zealand; Argentina; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4792483; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4792483

Genus Lepidopora Pourtalès, 1871 Type species. Errina glabra Pourtalès, 1867 Included species. Lepidopora acrolophos Cairns; L. biserialis Cairns; L. carinata (Pourtalès); L. clavigera Cairns; L. concatenata Cairns; L. cryptocymas Cairns; L. decipiens (Boschma); L. dendrostylus Cairns; L. diffusa Boschma; L. eburnea (Calvet); L. fistulosa † Cairns; L. gelanes Cairns; L. glabra (Pourtalès); L. granulosa (Cairns); L. iwasakii Pica & Puce; L. leptoclados Cairns; L. polygonalis Cairns; L. polystichopora Cairns; L. pusilla Cairns; L. sarmentosa Boschma; L. spinosa Cairns; L. symmetrica Cairns; L. unicaulis Cairns. Distribution. New Caledonia, Barbados, Lesser Antilles, the Azores, Strait of Florida, Cuba, New Zealand, Antarctica, South Africa, the Galápagos Islands, Japan, Patagonia, 47–2330 m (see Río Iglesias et al. 2012 and Pica et al. 2018). New record off Mar del Plata, 1200 m. Diagnosis. See Cairns 2015. Published as part of Bernal, M. C., Cairns, S. D., Penchaszadeh, P. E. & Lauretta, D., 2021, Stylasterids (Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from Mar del Plata submarine canyon and adjacent area (southwestern Atlantic), with a key to the species off Argentina, pp. 401-452 in Zootaxa 4969 (3) on page 27, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4969.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4751258