Eudendrium scotti Puce, Cerrano & Bavestrello 2002
- Dataset
- Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Hydrozoa
- order
- Anthoathecata
- family
- Eudendriidae
- genus
- Eudendrium
- species
- Eudendrium scotti
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Species previously reported from depths between 10 (Puce et al. 2002) and 397 m (Peña Cantero 2017); present material between 234 and 758 m depth, considerable extending its bathymetric range. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero 2009), previously unreported from the Weddell Sea.
description
(Fig. 3 i, k)
discussion
Remarks. Cnidome comprising large macrobasic euryteles [range 22.0 – 24.5 x 9.0 – 10.0 µm, mean 23.3 ± 1.1 x 9.2 ± 0.4 µm (n = 20)] and small microbasic euryteles [range 8.0 – 10.5 x 3.5 – 4.5 µm, mean 8.9 ± 0.8 x 4.2 ± 0.4 µm (n = 18)].
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 150, one colony, c. 80 mm high, on sponge, with male gonophores; 48 - 222, one stem, c. 25 mm, on Sy. weddelli, with female gonophores; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 276, few stems, up to 6 mm, on St. vanhoeffeni.