Symplectoscyphus weddelli 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 weddelli
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Species previously known from depths between 60 (Peña Cantero 2017) to 390 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2002); present material, was collected from 62 to 417 m depth. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero 2017) with few records, reported here for the third time.
description
(Fig. 11 l, 12 k)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 168, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with developing gonothecae; 48 - 222, mass of stems, c. 50 mm high, with gonothecae; 48 - 276, few stems, up to 13 mm high, on Sc. nana; ANT XVII / 3: 111 - 7, some stems, up to 11 mm high, with gonothecae; 111 - 9, some stems, up to 13 mm high, with gonothecae; 111 - 18, some stems, up to 10 mm high, on O. terranovae; 111 - 19, some stems, up to 20 mm high, on Sc. unifurcata, with gonothecae; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 39, some stems, up to 10 mm high; PS 65 / 121 few stems, up to 10 mm high, on O. tottoni and Sc. nana; PS 65 / 174, some stems, up to 35 mm high, with gonothecae; PS 65 / 237, some stems, up to 40 mm high, on sponge and Sc. nana; PS 65 / 276, mass of stems, c. 50 mm high, with developing gonothecae; PS 65 / 278, some stems, up to 15 mm high; PS 65 / 281, some stems, up to 15 mm high, on O. terranovae.