First occurrence of the rare siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Prayinae) in South Africa
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,...
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| author | Gillian M. Mapstone Craig N. Foster Mark J. Gibbons |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a00818cf14d741cbac83fd720b1b6e4d2023-01-18T21:09:14ZengPensoft PublishersAfrican Invertebrates2305-25622022-10-0163212113010.3897/afrinvertebr.63.9409594095First occurrence of the rare siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Prayinae) in South AfricaGillian M. Mapstone0Craig N. Foster1Mark J. Gibbons2The Natural History MuseumSeachange Science LabUniversity of the Western CapeA 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.https://africaninvertebrates.pensoft.net/article/94095/download/pdf/ |
| spellingShingle | Gillian M. Mapstone Craig N. Foster Mark J. Gibbons First occurrence of the rare siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Prayinae) in South Africa African Invertebrates |
| title | First occurrence of the rare siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Prayinae) in South Africa |
| title_full | First occurrence of the rare siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Prayinae) in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | First occurrence of the rare siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Prayinae) in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | First occurrence of the rare siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Prayinae) in South Africa |
| title_short | First occurrence of the rare siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Prayinae) in South Africa |
| title_sort | first occurrence of the rare siphonophore lilyopsis chun 1885 hydrozoa siphonophora prayinae in south africa |
| url | https://africaninvertebrates.pensoft.net/article/94095/download/pdf/ |
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