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Symplectoscyphus hero Blanco 1977

Description

Symplectoscyphus hero Blanco, 1977 a

Symplectoscyphus hero Blanco 1977a: 4 –6, figs 1–13, 19–20; Vervoort 1993: 240; Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1538 -1539, fig. 7; Peña Cantero 2008: 461, fig. 2h; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009: 88, fig. 2h.

Ecology. Shelf species, collected at depths between 70 (Peña Cantero 2008) and 135 m (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009). Epibiotic on hydroids (Peña Cantero 2008) and gorgonians (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009). Gonothecae: February (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009).

Distribution. West Antarctic: only known from off Low Island (Blanco 1977a; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009) and the north of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands (Peña Cantero 2008).

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 38, 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
hero
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Symplectoscyphus hero Blanco, 1977 sec. Peña, 2010

References

  • Blanco, O. M. (1977 a) Nuevos hidrozoos antarticos. Contribuciones del Instituto Antartico Argentino, 205, 3 - 15.
  • 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.