Campanularia hincksii Alder 1856
- Dataset
- Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from Mauritanian Coral Mounds
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Campanulariidae
- genus
- Campanularia
- species
- Campanularia hincksii
biology_ecology
Biology. This species was collected from a wide range of substrates, such as rocks, shell fragments, algae, hydrozoans and other invertebrates; fertile colonies have been found throughout the year (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002). Our material was attached to scleractinian corals, bivalves and other hydroid species. Fertile material was found in November.
discussion
Remarks. This is a well-known species and does not require further comments.
distribution
Distribution. Campanularia hincksii is a circumglobal species reported from Iceland to South Africa in the East Atlantic (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002). In West Africa, it was collected from Morocco (Billard 1906 b; Patriti 1970; Ramil & Vervoort 1992; Medel & Vervoort 1998), Mauritania (Billard 1906 b; Medel & Vervoort 2000; Vervoort 2006; Gil & Ramil 2017 a), Cape Verde Islands (Medel & Vervoort 2000), Senegal (Vervoort 1959), Guinea-Bissau (Vervoort 1959; Gili et al. 1989) and Ghana (Vervoort 1959). Its bathymetric distribution extends from the tidal level to a depth of 1200 m (Leloup 1940; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 2002). Our material was collected from depths of 417 to 574 m.
materials_examined
Material examined. MSM 16 / 3, stn GeoB 14908 – 1, ROV, 17 ° 40.213 ’ – 17 ° 40.191 ’ N, 16 ° 40.829 ’ – 16 ° 40.289 ’ W, 463 – 574 m, 16 - XI- 2010: three colonies 10 mm high, one colony growing on Lophelia pertusa, one on a bivalve, one of them with gonothecae. MSM 16 / 3, stn GeoB 14914 – 1, ROV, 17 ° 08.203 ’ – 17 ° 07.898 ’ N, 16 ° 49.478 ’ – 16 ° 48.878 ’ W, 417 – 514 m, 17 - XI- 2010: six colonies 6 – 7 mm high, one on Acesta excavata, one on Aglaophenia lophocarpa and three on Sertularella gayi.
Name
- Homonyms
- Campanularia hincksii Alder 1856