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Symplectoscyphus vanhoeffeni Totton 1930

Description

Symplectoscyphus vanhoeffeni (Totton, 1930)

Sertularella subdichotoma – Vanhöffen 1910: 326, fig. 41a–e.

Symplectoscyphus vanhoeffeni Totton 1930: 187, fig. 38a–d; Briggs 1938: 31; Leloup 1974: 47, fig. 39; Blanco 1982: 40; 1984: 36-37, pl. 30, figs. 67, 68; Branch & Williams 1993: 13, fig.; Vervoort 1993: 241; Bouillon et al. 1995: 74; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995: 82, fig. 35; Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1556 –1560, fig. 15; Peña Cantero 2008: 461.

Sertularella vanhoeffeni – Naumov & Stepanjants 1972: 34, 40, fig. 4; Stepanjants 1972: 70; 1979: 77, pl. 17, fig. 5.

? Symplectoscyphus vanhoeffeni – Ralph 1961: 817, fig. 19a–c.

Sertularella vanhoeffeni – Naumov & Stepanjants 1962: 82 (in part).

Ecology. Shelf species, found at depths from 6 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972) to 390 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). On bottoms of detritus, mud, gravel, gravel and mud, stones and rocks (Totton 1930; Briggs 1938; Naumov & Stepanjants 1972; Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Epibiotic on seaweeds (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972), hydroids (Totton 1930; Naumov & Stepanjants 1972), bryozoans (Totton 1930; Naumov & Stepanjants 1972; Peña Cantero et al. 2002) and polychaete tubes (Totton 1930; Peña Cantero 2008). Basibiont for other hydroids (Stepanjants 1979; Peña Cantero 2008). Gonothecae: January (Totton 1930; Stepanjants 1979; Peña Cantero et al. 2002; Peña Cantero 2008), February (Stepanjants 1979; Peña Cantero et al. 2002), March and from July to December (Stepanjants 1979).

Distribution. Circum-Antarctic (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995). West Antarctica: Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995), Low Island (Blanco 1984), Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands (Peña Cantero 2008), Antarctic Peninsula (Peña Cantero 2008) and the south and east coasts of the Weddell Sea (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). East Antarctica: Cape Adare and McMurdo Sound, in the Ross Sea (Totton 1930), Adélie Land (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972), the Davis Sea (Vanhöffen 1910; Briggs 1938; Stepanjants 1972, 1979) and the Cosmonauts Sea (Stepanjants 1979).

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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 41, 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
Totton
Species
vanhoeffeni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Symplectoscyphus vanhoeffeni Totton, 1930 sec. Peña, 2010

References

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