Symplectoscyphus vanhoeffeni Totton 1930
- 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 vanhoeffeni
biology_ecology
Ecology and distribution. Previously reported from depths between 6 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972, as Sertularella vanhoeffeni) and 964 m (Peña Cantero 2014 a); material examined collected at 177 – 277 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995).
description
(Fig. 11 k, 12 j)
materials_examined
Material examined. ANT XV / 3: 48 - 5, one colony, c. 18 mm high, on sponge; 48 - 222, one colony, c. 16 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XXI / 2: PS 65 / 276, one colony, c. 25 mm high.