In:
African Invertebrates, Pensoft Publishers, Vol. 63, No. 2 ( 2022-10-25), p. 121-130
Abstract:
A colony of the rare hydrozoan siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885, was observed for the first time in shallow water in False Bay, South Africa, swimming amongst kelp. A study of a high-quality image of this individual found it to share some characters with the prayine prayid L. fluoracantha Haddock, Dunn & Pugh, 2005, so far known only from Monterey Bay, California, in the eastern Pacific. No Lilyopsis species has previously been reliably identified from either the South Atlantic or the Indian Ocean, so this record represents an expansion of the known worldwide distribution for this genus.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2305-2562
,
1681-5556
DOI:
10.3897/afrinvertebr.63.94095
DOI:
10.3897/afrinvertebr.63.94095.figure1
DOI:
10.3897/afrinvertebr.63.94095.figure2
DOI:
10.3897/afrinvertebr.63.94095.figure3
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Pensoft Publishers
Publication Date:
2022
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2525413-3
SSG:
12