Symplectoscyphus anae Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 2002

• Main Author: ÁLVARO L. PEÑA CANTERO
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Symplectoscyphus; Symplectoscyphus anae; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; East Antarctica; Low Island; Ross Sea; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3511978; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C84B87CACC31FF92E8DD055F0E3BF271

Symplectoscyphus anae Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002 (Figs 12 C, 13A) Symplectoscyphus anae — Peña Cantero, 2010a: 35 (synonymy); 2013: 131–132, fig. 4A; 2014a: 1723–1724, fig. 6a. Material examined. Stn 63, three stems up to 7 mm high (MNCN 2.03/633); Stn 67, several stems up to 20 mm high on Staurotheca nonscripta (NIWA 117572); Stn 126, several stems up to 5 mm high on Staurotheca densa (MNCN 2.03/634); Stn 130, few stems up to 6 mm high on Staurotheca densa (NIWA 117573). Ecology and distribution. Shelf species (Peña Cantero 2010a) collected at depths from 20 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972) to 640 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2002); present material from 120 to 312 m, epibiotic on Staurotheca densa and S. nonscripta . Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Recently reported from off Low Island (Peña Cantero 2013), in West Antarctica, and off Queen Mary Coast (Peña Cantero 2014a), in East Antarctica. See Peña Cantero (2010a) for previous records. Present material is the first record from the Ross Sea, collected off Cape Adare and Cape Hallet. Published as part of ÁLVARO L. PEÑA CANTERO, 2017, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Ross Sea (Antarctica) collected by the New Zealand Antarctic expedition BioRoss 2004 with RV Tangaroa, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 4293 (1) on page 40, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4293.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/828475