Lafoeina tenuis

• Main Author: Moura, Carlos J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Campanulinidae; Lafoeina; Lafoeina tenuis; Norway; Alvarez; Roca; Iceland; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5622498; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5622498

Lafoeina tenuis (fig. 3 A) Lafoeina tenuis G. O. Sars, 1874: 95, 119– 121, pl. 5 figs. 1–5.— Cornelius, 1995 a: 197 –199, fig. 45.— Vervoort, 2006: 225 –226, figs. 7 no. 4; 8 no. 1; 10 d–i.— Bouillon et al., 2004: 131, figs. 69 E–G. Material studied. Ormonde, stn 1: few polyps, on cauli of Zonaria tournefortii, DBUA 1522.07. Ormonde, stn 2: few polyps, on Zonaria tournefortii, DBUA 1522.01. Ormonde, stn 3: very frequent, on cauli of Zonaria tournefortii and calcified Bryozoa, DBUA 1522.02. Ormonde, stn 4: frequent, covering all over some Zonaria tournefortii, DBUA 1522.03. Gettysburg, stn 5: few polyps, on Zonaria tournefortii, DBUA 1522.04. Gettysburg, stn 6: few polyps, on two species of algae. Gettysburg, stn 7: frequent on algae, DBUA 1522.06. Gettysburg, stn 8: few polyps, on Zonaria tournefortii. Gettysburg, stn 9: very frequent on Zonaria tournefortii, also overgrowing Sertularella ellisii, DBUA 1522.08. Gettysburg, stn 10: very abundant; on algae and colonies of Sertularella gayi and S. ellisii, DBUA 1522.09. Reported distribution. Northeast Atlantic.—Widely distributed in the Northeast Atlantic: Azores (Cornelius 1992, 1995a; Vervoort 2006), Madeira (Cornelius 1995 a), Gorringe (present study), mainland Portugal (personal observation), Spain (García-Corrales et al. 1979; Ramil 1988; Altuna & García-Carrascosa 1990; Alvarez-Claudio 1993; Altuna 1994 a, b; Álvarez-Claudio & Anadón 1995; Medel & López-González 1996; Ramil et al. 1998 a); Bay of Biscay (Gourret 1906); British Isles (e.g. Hincks 1868; Cornelius 1995 a; Howson & Picton 1997; France (Cornelius 1995 a); Iceland (Hincks 1874); Norway (Sars 1869, 1874; Hincks 1874; Christiansen 1972); Sweden (Jagerskiold 1971; Calder 2012); Baltic Sea/North Sea (Broch 1928). Mediterranean.—Widely spread across the western Mediterranean: Spain (Gili 1986; García Carrascosa 1981; Roca 1986); France (Picard 1951 b; Bellan-Santini 1970; Galea 2007), and Italy (e.g. Rossi 1961; Montanari & Morri 1977; Morri 1979, 1980, 1981). Recently recorded in ...