Symplectoscyphus frondosus Pena Cantero 2010
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Symplectoscyphus frondosus Peña Cantero, 2010
Symplectoscyphus frondosus Peña Cantero, 2010a: 30 –34, figs 1A–C, 2.
Material examined. Stn 82, two stems, 165 (NIWA 60488) and 65 mm high (MNCN 2.03/437), with gonothecae; Stn 102, fragment 6 mm long, with incomplete female? gonothecae (NIWA 60489); Stn 103, three stems, 85, 40 (NIWA 60490) and 30 mm high (MNCN 2.03/438); Stn 108, branched stem 280 mm high, with gonothecae (NIWA 60491); Stn 171, two stems, 100 (NIWA 60492) and 95 mm (MNCN 2.03/439), on mollusc shell.
Remarks. Species described by Peña Cantero (2010a) from this material.
Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 400 and 564 m, off Cape Adare, Adare Peninsula and Cape Hallett and with gonothecae in February.
Hitherto considered endemic of the area of study.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sertulariidae
- Genus
- Symplectoscyphus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Pena Cantero
- Species
- frondosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Symplectoscyphus frondosus Cantero, 2010 sec. CANTERO, 2017
References
- 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.