Symplectoscyphus frigidus Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 2002

• Main Author: Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Symplectoscyphus; Symplectoscyphus frigidus; Antarc*; Antarctic; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5622805; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/247AF616FF89FFB1FF16F8B8FCF8FE20

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). 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