Symplectoscyphus hero Blanco 1977

• Main Author: Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Symplectoscyphus; Symplectoscyphus hero; Antarctic; The Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; Livingston Island; Blanco; Antarc*; Low Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5622809; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5622809

Symplectoscyphus hero Blanco, 1977 a Symplectoscyphus hero Blanco 1977 a: 4 –6, figs 1–13, 19 – 20; Vervoort 1993: 240; Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1538 -1539, fig. 7; Peña Cantero 2008: 461, fig. 2 h; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009: 88, fig. 2 h. Ecology. Shelf species, collected at depths between 70 (Peña Cantero 2008) and 135 m (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009). Epibiotic on hydroids (Peña Cantero 2008) and gorgonians (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009). Gonothecae: February (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009). Distribution. West Antarctic: only known from off Low Island (Blanco 1977 a; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009) and the north of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands (Peña Cantero 2008). 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 38, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.195709