Symplectoscyphus anae Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 2002
- 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 anae
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Previously reported at depths between 20 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972, as Symplectoscyphus curvatus) and 1658 m (Peña Cantero in press); material examined collected from 82 to 416 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero et al. 2002).
description
(Fig. 11 a, 12 a)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 27, several stems, up to 30 mm high, on dead octocoral; 48 - 77, several stems, up to 40 mm high, on A. frigida and octocoral, with gonothecae; 48 - 197, one colony, up to 10 mm high, on St. polarsterni; 48 - 220, several stems, c. 40 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XVII / 3: 111 - 18, several stems, up to 40 mm high, on undetermined hydrorhiza and O. terranovae, with gonothecae; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 166, few stems, up to 9 mm high, on O. erratum; PS 65 / 174, one colony, up to 14 mm high, on A. elongatus; PS 65 / 237, one colony, up to 10 mm high, on S. lobata; PS 65 / 265, several stems, up to 35 mm high, on St. polarsterni; PS 65 / 276, few stems, up to 15 mm high; PS 65 / 278, some stems, up to 18 mm high; on B. subrufa and H. secundum; PS 65 / 280, few stems, up to 8 mm high; PS 65 / 281, several stems, up to 35 mm high.