Lafoea gaussica Vanhoffen 1910
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Lafoeidae
- genus
- Lafoea
- species
- Lafoea gaussica
description
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materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 280, stolonal colony, few hydrothecae, on bryozoan. Ecology and distribution. Previously found at depths from 40 (Stepanjants, 1979) to 460 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2004); present material collected at 191 – 228 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero et al. 2004).
Name
- Homonyms
- Lafoea gaussica Vanhoffen 1910