Antarctoscyphus spiralis (Hickson & Gravely 1907)
- 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 spiralis
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Previously reported at depths from 6 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972, as Sertularella spiralis) to 2143 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2017); our material comes from depths between 119 and 417 m. Species with a circum-Antarctic distribution (Stepanjants 1979, as Sertularella spiralis).
description
(Fig. 10 h – j)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 77, one colony, c. 45 mm high; 48 - 274, one colony, c. 75 mm high; 48 - 276, one colony, c. 25 mm high; 48 - 297, one colony, c. 20 mm high; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 121, one colony, c. 80 mm high; PS 65 / 132, one colony, c. 65 mm high; PS 65 / 166, one colony, c. 10 mm high, on St. nonscripta; PS 65 / 253, three stems, c. 60, 70, 75 mm high; PS 65 / 265, one colony, c. 65 mm high, and few stems, up to 20 mm high, on St. polarsterni; PS 65 / 274, one colony, c. 75 mm high; PS 65 / 278, one colony, c. 30 mm high.