Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco 1982

• Main Author: Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Symplectoscyphus; Symplectoscyphus exochus; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Bransfield Strait; Weddell; Blanco; Palmer Archipelago; Bransfield Island; Antarc*; Low Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5622803; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5622803

Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco, 1982 Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco 1982: 39 –41, figs 1–7; 1985: 225–226, figs 1, 2; 1994: 202; Vervoort 1993: 239; Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1525 –1529, fig. 4; Peña Cantero 2008: 460, fig. 2g; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009: 88, fig. 2 f. Symplectoscyphus glacialis – Vervoort 1972 b: 351 (in part). Ecology. Shelf species, collected at depths from 15 (Vervoort 1972 b) to 634 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). On muddy bottoms (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Epilithic on stone (Peña Cantero 2010) and epibiotic on hydroids, bryozoans and polychaete tubes (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Basibiont for colonies of other hydroids (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Gonothecae: January (Peña Cantero et al. 2002), February (Peña Cantero et al. 2002; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009); immature in March (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Distribution. West Antarctic: Low Island (Blanco 1982; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009), Palmer Archipelago (Vervoort 1972 b; Blanco 1985), Bransfield Island and Bransfield Strait (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009) and south and east coasts of the Weddell Sea (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). 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 36, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.195709