Lafoeina longitheca Jaderholm 1904
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Campanulinidae
- genus
- Lafoeina
- species
- Lafoeina longitheca
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Species reported at depths from five (Stepanjants 1979) to 701 m (Peña Cantero 2014 a); present material comes from 62 to 360 m. Pan-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009).
description
(Fig. 7 a)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 77, few hydrothecae, on Halecium pseudodelicatulum Peña Cantero, 2014; ANT XVII / 3: 111 - 5, several hydrothecae, on L. dumosa and O. terranovae, with gonothecae; 111 - 9, numerous hydrothecae, on O. terranovae, T. longstaffi and polychaete tube; 111 - 18, numerous hydrothecae, on C. hicksoni, H. interpolatum, O. terranovae, Sc. nana and undeterminate hydrorhiza; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 251, numerous hydrothecae, on O. terranovae; PS 65 / 281, several hydrothecae, on B. subrufa and Sy. cumberlandicus.
Name
- Homonyms
- Lafoeina longitheca Jaderholm 1904