Symplectoscyphus anae Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 2002
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Symplectoscyphus anae Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002
(Figs 12 C, 13A)
Symplectoscyphus anae — Peña Cantero, 2010a: 35 (synonymy); 2013: 131–132, fig. 4A; 2014a: 1723–1724, fig. 6a.
Material examined. Stn 63, three stems up to 7 mm high (MNCN 2.03/633); Stn 67, several stems up to 20 mm high on Staurotheca nonscripta (NIWA 117572); Stn 126, several stems up to 5 mm high on Staurotheca densa (MNCN 2.03/634); Stn 130, few stems up to 6 mm high on Staurotheca densa (NIWA 117573).
Ecology and distribution. Shelf species (Peña Cantero 2010a) collected at depths from 20 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972) to 640 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2002); present material from 120 to 312 m, epibiotic on Staurotheca densa and S. nonscripta.
Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Recently reported from off Low Island (Peña Cantero 2013), in West Antarctica, and off Queen Mary Coast (Peña Cantero 2014a), in East Antarctica. See Peña Cantero (2010a) for previous records. Present material is the first record from the Ross Sea, collected off Cape Adare and Cape Hallet.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sertulariidae
- Genus
- Symplectoscyphus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort
- Species
- anae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Symplectoscyphus anae Cantero, 2002 sec. CANTERO, 2017
References
- Pena Cantero, A. L., Svoboda, A. & Vervoort, W. (2002) Species of Symplectoscyphus Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa, Sertulariidae) from recent Antarctic expeditions with R. V. Polarstern, with the description of four new species. Journal of Natural History, 36, 1509 - 1568.
- Pena Cantero, A. L. (2010 a) On a new Antarctic species of Symplectoscyphus Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Sertulariidae), with an annotated checklist of the Antarctic species of the genus. Zootaxa, 2494, 29 - 44.
- Naumov, D. V. & Stepanjants, S. D. (1972) Marine invertebrates from Adelie Land collected by the XIIth and XVth French Antarctic Expeditions. 3. Hydroida. Tethys Supplement, 4, 25 - 60.
- Pena Cantero, A. L. (2014 a) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the continental shelf and slope off Queen Mary Coast (East Antarctica). Polar Biology, 37, 1711 - 1731.