Zygophylax levinseni (Saemundsson 1911)
- Dataset
- Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Mauritanian Coral Mounds
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Lafoeidae
- genus
- Zygophylax
- species
- Zygophylax levinseni
biology_ecology
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).
discussion
Remarks. Although our colony is only a fragment, it is consistent with the material described by Ramil & Vervoort (1992).
distribution
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 2017 a) 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.
materials_examined
Material examined. MAURIT- 1011, stn MUDR 20, 16 º 08´11 ” N, 16 º 56´08 ” W, 405 m, 7 - XII- 2010: one fragment, without coppiniae.