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Symplectoscyphus frigidus Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 2002

Description

Symplectoscyphus frigidus Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002

Symplectoscyphus glacialis – Broch 1948: 5, 9–13, figs 2d, e, 3a.

Symplectoscyphus sp. 5 Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995: 92 –94, fig. 41a–e. Symplectoscyphus sp. 7 Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995: 94 –96, fig. 42a–c. Symplectoscyphus frigidus Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1529 –1533, fig. 5.

Ecology. Shelf species, collected at depths between 86 (Broch 1948) and 402 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). On bottoms of detritus, mud, mud with sand, and stones (Broch 1948; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995; Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Epibiotic on hydroids and bryozoans (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995; Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Basibiont for colonies of other hydroids (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Gonothecae: January and February (Peña Cantero et al. 2002).

Distribution. West Antarctic: Peter I and Bouvet islands (Broch 1948), Shag Rocks, in the South Georgia region, and King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands (Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995) and the east coast of the Weddell Sea (Peña Cantero et al. 2002).

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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 pages 36-37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195709

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References

  • 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.
  • Broch, H. (1948) Antarctic Hydroids. Scientific Results of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition 1927 - 1928, et sqq., 28, 1 - 23.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Garcia Carrascosa, A. M. (1995) Hidrozoos bentonicos de la campana Antartida 8611. Publicaciones Especiales del Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, 19, 1 - 148.