Modeeria rotunda ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 )

Gil, Marta & Ramil, Fran, 2021, Hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Vema and Valdivia seamounts (SE Atlantic), European Journal of Taxonomy 758, pp. 49-96 : 59

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2021.758.1425
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5088920
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Modeeria rotunda ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 )
status

Treatment

Modeeria rotunda ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1827) View in CoL

Dianeae rotunda Quoy & Gaimard, 1827: 181–182 , pl. 6a figs 1–2.

Modeeria rotunda View in CoL – Millard 1975: 137–138, fig. 45a. — Ramil & Vervoort 1992: 29–32, fig. 4a–b.

Material examined

SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN • 1 colony, growing on Eudendrium ramosum , without gonothecae; Vema Seamount , stn Dive 3; 71–935 m depth; 31 Jan. 2015; SEAFO-2015 leg.; SEAFO-2015-40708 .

Distribution

Modeeria rotunda is a cosmopolitan species ( Ramil & Vervoort 1992; Vervoort 2006). In the Southeast Atlantic, it was reported from Namibia ( Gili et al. 1989) and also from the east coast of South Africa to Mozambique (Millard 1975). Its bathymetric distribution extends from 0.5 to 1575 m (Gil 2017).