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Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco 1982

Description

Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco, 1982

Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco 1982: 39 –41, figs 1–7; 1985: 225–226, figs 1, 2; 1994: 202; Vervoort 1993: 239; Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1525 –1529, fig. 4; Peña Cantero 2008: 460, fig. 2g; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009: 88, fig. 2f. Symplectoscyphus glacialis – Vervoort 1972b: 351 (in part).

Ecology. Shelf species, collected at depths from 15 (Vervoort 1972b) to 634 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). On muddy bottoms (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Epilithic on stone (Peña Cantero 2010) and epibiotic on hydroids, bryozoans and polychaete tubes (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Basibiont for colonies of other hydroids (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Gonothecae: January (Peña Cantero et al. 2002), February (Peña Cantero et al. 2002; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009); immature in March (Peña Cantero et al. 2002).

Distribution. West Antarctic: Low Island (Blanco 1982; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009), Palmer Archipelago (Vervoort 1972b; Blanco 1985), Bransfield Island and Bransfield Strait (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009) and south and east coasts of the Weddell Sea (Peña Cantero et al. 2002).

Other

Published as part of Peña, Álvaro L., 2010, On a new Antarctic species of Symplectoscyphus Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Sertulariidae), with an annotated checklist of the Antarctic species of the genus, pp. 29-44 in Zootaxa 2494 on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195709

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sertulariidae
Genus
Symplectoscyphus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Blanco
Species
exochus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco, 1982 sec. Peña, 2010

References

  • Blanco, O. M. (1982) Un nuevo sertularido de Isla Baja. Revista del Museo de La Plata (Zoologia), (Nueva Serie) 13 (133), 39 - 43, figs 1 - 7 on 2 pls.
  • Vervoort, W. (1993) Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Hydroida: Hydroids from the Western Pacific (Philippines, Indonesia and New Caledonia) I: Sertulariidae (Part 1). In: Resultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 11. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, 158, 89 - 298.
  • 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. (2008) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Spanish Antarctic expedition Bentart 95. Polar Biology, 31, 451 - 464.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W. (2009) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Bransfield Strait area (Antarctica) collected by Brazilian expeditions, with the description of a new species. Polar Biology, 32, 83 - 92.
  • Vervoort, W. (1972 b) Hydroids from submarine cliffs near Arthur Harbour, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Zoologische Mededelingen, 47 (25), 337 - 357.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. (2010) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Peter I Island (Southern Ocean, Antarctica). Polar Biology, 33, 761 - 773.
  • Blanco, O. M. (1985) Gonangios en Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco (Hydroida Thecata). Neotropica, 31 (86), 225 - 227.