Symplectoscyphus liouvillei Billard 1914

• Main Author: Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Symplectoscyphus; Symplectoscyphus liouvillei; Antarctic; Blanco; Bouvet; Bouvet Island; Gravier; King George Island; Livingston Island; South Orkney Islands; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5622813; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5622813

Symplectoscyphus liouvillei (Billard, 1914) Sertularella liouvillei Billard 1914: 24 –26, figs 14, 15. Symplectoscyphus liouvillei – Stechow 1922: 148; 1923: 172; Gravier-Bonnet 1979: 52; Blanco 1982: 41; Vervoort 1993: 240; Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1540 –1545, figs. 8–10; Peña Cantero 2006: 943, fig. 4 I; 2008: 461, fig. 2 i; Peña Cantero & Gili 2006: 768. Sertularella (Symplectoscyphus) liouvillei – Broch 1948: 5, 9–13, fig. 3 b–d [in part, part belongs to S. cumberlandicus (Jäderholm, 1905)]. ? Sertularella liouvillei – Stepanjants 1972: 71, fig. 46; 1979: 80, pl. 14, fig. 2. Sertularella aggregata – Stepanjants 1979: 82, pl. 15, fig. 2 A, B. Lafoea weddelli Blanco 1991: 12 –13, fig. 3. Ecology. Shelf species, collected at depths from 65 (Peña Cantero 2008) to 443 m (Peña Cantero 2006). On bottoms of mud and gravel (Billard 1914; Broch 1948). Epilithic on gravel and rocks (Stepanjants 1979) and stones (Peña Cantero 2006). Used as substratum by other hydroids (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Gonothecae: January (Peña Cantero et al. 2002), February (Stepanjants 1979; Peña Cantero et al. 2002) and March (Stepanjants 1979). Distribution. West-Antarctic-Patagonian. Antarctic waters: King George Island (Billard 1914) and Livingston Island (Peña Cantero 2006; 2008), in the South Shetland Islands, Bouvet Island (Broch 1948), the South Orkney Islands (Stepanjants 1979) and in the Weddell Sea, at 76 º 43 'S, 50 º 29 'W (Blanco 1991) and the south and east coasts (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Sub-Antarctic waters: Falkland Islands (Stepanjants 1979). 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