Species Lafoea dumosa (Fleming, 1828)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sertularia dumosa Fleming, J. 1828. A History of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusca, and radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh (London) : Bell & Bradfute (and James Duncan) xxiii, 565 pp.
• Campanularia dumosa Fleming, J. 1828. A History of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusca, and radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh (London) : Bell & Bradfute (and James Duncan) xxiii, 565 pp. [548-549].
• Campanularia fruticosa Sars, M. 1850. Beretning om en i Sommeren 1849 foretagen zoologisk Reise i Lofoten og Finmarken. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 6: 121-221 [131, 138].
• Campanularia gracillima Alder, J. 1856. A notice of some new genera and species of British hydroid zoophytes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 107: 353-362, pls 12-14 [361].
• Lafoea capillaris Sars, G.O. 1874. Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges Hydroider. Forhandlinger i Videnskapsselskabet i Kristiania 1873: 91-150, pls 2-6 [115].
• Lafoea elegantula Broch, H. 1903. Die von dem norwegischen Fischereidampfer "Michael Sars" in den Jahren l900-1902 in dem Nordmeer gesammelten Hydroiden. Bergens Museums Arsberetning 1-14, pls 1-4 [5-6].
• Lafoea tenellula Allman, G.J. 1877. Report on the Hydroida collected during the exploration of the Gulf Stream by L.F. De Pourtalès, assistant United States Coast Survey. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 5: 1-66 pls I-34 [12, pl. 8 figs3, 4].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vervoort, W. & Watson, J.E. 2003. Marine Fauna of New Zealand. Leptothecata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) (Thecate Hydroids). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 119: 1-538 [62]

 

Generic Combinations

• Lafoea dumosa (Fleming, 1828). —
  Clarke, S.F. 1877. Report on the hydroids collected on the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, by W.H. Dall, U.S. Coast Survey, and Party, from 1871 to 1874 inclusive. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1876: 209-238, pls 7-16 [216, pl. 12]
• Lafoea fructicosa (M. Sars, 1851).

 

Introduction

A widely distributed deep water species (Watson 2018)

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Near cosmopolitan deep water species in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic. Recorded from the Great Australian Bight. Macquarie Island and New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Distribution References

General References

Vervoort, W. & Watson, J.E. 2003. Marine Fauna of New Zealand. Leptothecata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) (Thecate Hydroids). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 119: 1-538 [62]

Watson, J.E. 2018. Some Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Great Australian Bight in the collection of the South Australian Museum. Zootaxa 4410(1): 1-34, figs 1-12 [3-4, fig. 1F-G]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	MEDUSOZOA Petersen, 1979	28-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Lisa Gershwin
05-Aug-2022		05-Jun-2012	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		16-Apr-2012	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		16-Apr-2012	MOVED
		16-May-2013	MODIFIED