Cirrholovenia tetranema Kramp 1959
- Dataset
- Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Mauritanian Coral Mounds
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Lovenellidae
- genus
- Cirrholovenia
- species
- Cirrholovenia tetranema
biology_ecology
Biology. This species has been reported growing mainly on other hydroids and rocks, algae and other invertebrates (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002; Migotto & Cabral 2005). Fertile material has been found during the austral summer in the Seychelles (Millard & Bouillon 1973) and Brazil (Migotto & Cabral 2005). The colony studied by us was found on a bryozoan.
distribution
Distribution. Cirrholovenia tetranema is a circumglobal species (Calder 1991; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002); its geographical distribution was sumarised by Migotto & Cabral (2005). In West Africa, it was collected from Morocco (Ramil & Vervoort 1992) and Mauritania (Gil & Ramil 2017 a). The bathymetric distribution ranges from 1 to 1062 m (Calder 1991; Calder & Vervoort 1998). Our material was collected from a depth of 421 m.
materials_examined
Material examined. MAURIT- 0911, stn MUDR 05: 18 º 08´43 ” N, 16 º 35´42 ” W, 421 m, 8 - XII- 2009: one colony, on bryozoan, without gonothecae.