Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS) - Lensia hunter Totton, 1941

WoRMS taxon details

Lensia hunter Totton, 1941

AphiaID

287257 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:287257)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Lensia Totton, 1932

Original name

Lensia hunter Totton, 1941

Synonymised names

Lensia landrumae Alvariño & Wojtan, 1984 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Totton, A. K. 1941. New species of the siphonophoran genus Lensia Totton, 1932. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 8 (45): 145-168.
page(s): 154, figs 11-12 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Lensia hunter Totton, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287257 on 2025-05-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2009-03-25 14:23:57Z

changed

Mapstone, Gill

2013-12-29 12:42:38Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Totton, A. K. 1941. New species of the siphonophoran genus Lensia Totton, 1932. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 11, 8 (45): 145-168.
page(s): 154, figs 11-12 [details]

original description (of Lensia landrumae Alvariño & Wojtan, 1984) Alvariño, A., and Wojtan, J. M. 1984. Three new species of Lensia, and description of the eudoxia stages of Lensia reticulata and Lensia lelouveteau (Calycophorae: Siphonophorae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 97 (1): 49-59.
page(s): 53, fig.3 [details]

Ecology

ecology source Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 1-868. [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Pugh, P. R. (2013). Confirmed records of Siphonophorae found below 500 m depth. (personal database). [details]

additional source Thibault Botha, D., Gibbons M.J., 2005. Epipelagic siphonophores off the east coast of South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science 27 1: 129-139.
page(s): 135, fig.8 [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Pugh, P. R. (1999). Siphonophorae. In South Atlantic Zooplankton I. Edited by D. Boltovskoy. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 1-868.
page(s): 490, fig.3.95 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Habitat meso-bathypelagic [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lensia landrumae Alvariño & Wojtan, 1984)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (4 records) (from synonym Lensia landrumae Alvariño & Wojtan, 1984)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 61062) (from synonym Lensia landrumae Alvariño & Wojtan, 1984)