Antarctoscyphus asymmetricus Pena Cantero, Garcia Carrascosa & Vervoort 1997
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Sertulariidae
- genus
- Antarctoscyphus
- species
- Antarctoscyphus asymmetricus
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Previously reported at depths from 18 (Peña Cantero et al. 2017) to 429 m (Peña Cantero 2008); material examined comes from 230 to 274 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 2017); present contribution constitutes the first evidence from the Weddell Sea.
description
(Fig. 10 a)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 72, one colony, c. 65 mm high, with developing gonothecae; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 121, one colony, c. 50 mm high; PS 65 / 237, one colony, 11 mm high.