Symplectoscyphus liouvillei (Billard 1914)
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Leptothecata
- family
- Sertulariidae
- genus
- Symplectoscyphus
- species
- Symplectoscyphus liouvillei
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Previously reported at depths between 65 (Peña Cantero 2008) and 536 m (Peña Cantero in press); present material collected from 228 to 416 m. Antarctic-Patagonian distribution (Peña Cantero 2017).
description
(Fig. 11 g, 12 f – g)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 168, one colony, c. 105 mm high, with gonothecae; 48 - 197, one colony, c. 20 mm high; 48 - 220, one colony, c. 45 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 174, one colony, c. 280 mm high, on gravel, with developing gonothecae.