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Symplectoscyphus nesioticus Blanco 1977

Description

Symplectoscyphus nesioticus Blanco, 1977 b

Symplectoscyphus nesioticus Blanco 1977b: 4; 1994: 204; Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1549 –1550, fig. 11E, G; Peña Cantero 2006: 943–944, fig. 4J, K; 2010: 770, fig. 5e.

Ecology. Shelf species, collected at depths from 56 (Peña Cantero 2006) to 522 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Epibiotic on bryozoans (Blanco 1977b; Peña Cantero 2006; 2010) and hydroids (Blanco 1977b; Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Gonothecae: February (Peña Cantero 2006).

Distribution. West-Antarctic: Low Island (Blanco 1977b) and Livingston Island (Peña Cantero 2006), in the South Shetland Islands region, Peter I Island (Peña Cantero 2010) and the east coast 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 39, 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
nesioticus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Symplectoscyphus nesioticus Blanco, 1977 sec. Peña, 2010

References

  • Blanco, O. M. (1977 b) Una nueva especie de Symplectoscyphus argentina. Contribuciones del Instituto Antartico Argentino, 206, 1 - 12.
  • 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) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Peter I Island (Southern Ocean, Antarctica). Polar Biology, 33, 761 - 773.