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Carlos Varela

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The genus Lytocarpia and the species L. distans are recorded for the first time for Cuban archipielago. This is the most shallow find of this hydroid species.

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hydroid, genus Lytocarpia, L. distans, first record, Cuban archipelago

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Varela, C. (2011). First record of the genus Lytocarpia Kirchenpauer, 1872 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Leptothecata) for Cuba. Novitates Caribaea, (4), 120–122. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i4.146

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