Symplectoscyphus anae Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 2002

Symplectoscyphus anae Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002

(Fig. 11a, 12a)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-27, several stems, up to 30 mm high, on dead octocoral; 48-77, several stems, up to 40 mm high, on A. frigida and octocoral, with gonothecae; 48-197, one colony, up to 10 mm high, on St. polarsterni; 48-220, several stems, c. 40 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XVII/3: 111-18, several stems, up to 40 mm high, on undetermined hydrorhiza and O. terranovae, with gonothecae; ANT XXI/2: PS65/166, few stems, up to 9 mm high, on O. erratum; PS65/174, one colony, up to 14 mm high, on A. elongatus; PS65/237, one colony, up to 10 mm high, on S. lobata; PS65/265, several stems, up to 35 mm high, on St. polarsterni; PS65/276, few stems, up to 15 mm high; PS65/278, some stems, up to 18 mm high; on B. subrufa and H. secundum; PS65/280, few stems, up to 8 mm high; PS65/281, several stems, up to 35 mm high.

Ecology and distribution. Previously reported at depths between 20 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972, as Symplectoscyphus curvatus) and 1658 m (Peña Cantero in press); material examined collected from 82 to 416 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero et al. 2002).