Title
First record of cnidocodon leopoldi bouillon, 1978 (Cnidaria: Anthoathecata) in the Atlantic ocean
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad Federal Rural de Pernambuco
Publisher(s)
Universidade de Sao Paulo. Museu de Zoologia
Abstract
Specimens of the hydromedusa Cnidocodon leopoldi Bouillon, 1978 were collected in waters off the northeast Brazilian coast between 7.4°S, 34.3°W and 8.7°S, 34.8°W. The genus can be distinguished from other anthomedusae by the presence of four marginal perradial bulbs having an adaxial nematocyst cushion and branched capitate tentacles, an umbrella with scattered nematocysts, and gonads around a cylindrical manubrium shorter than the umbrella. Specimens were assigned to C. leopoldi due the tentacles with 4-5 branches and the absence of ocelli on tentacle bulbs differing from the congeneric Cnidocodon ocellata Huang, Xu, Lin & Qiu, 2008. This study represents the first record of the species in the Atlantic Ocean.
Volume
61
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Subjects
Publication version
Version of Record
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85121652994
Source
Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia
ISSN of the container
0031-1049
Sponsor(s)
We acknowledge the French oceanographic fleet for funding the survey ABRAÇOS 2 and the officers, crew and scientific team of the R/V Antea for their contribu‑ tion to the success of the operations. The present study could not have been done without the support of all participants from the LABZOO and the laboratories at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco. We thank the CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico), which provided student scholarship to EGT (grant 140897/2017‑8). This work is a contribution to the LMI TAPIOCA (https://tapioca.ird.fr) and CAPES/COFECUB
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