Antarctoscyphus elongatus

• Main Authors: Soto, Joan J., Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Antarctoscyphus; Antarctoscyphus elongatus; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5934953; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934953

Antarctoscyphus elongatus (Jäderholm, 1904) (Fig. 10 b–d) Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-44, one colony, c. 50 mm high; 48-63, one colony, c. 70 mm high; 48-72, one colony, c. 15 mm high; 48-77, one colony, c. 75 mm high; ANT XVII /3: 111-18, one colony, c. 35 mm high, on O. terranovae; ANT XXI /2: PS65/132, one colony, c. 85 mm high; PS65/148, one colony, c. 55 mm high; PS65/166, one colony, c. 65 mm high; PS65/174, one colony, c. 105 mm high; PS65/175, some stems, c. 60, 75 and 80 mm high; PS65/237, one colony, c. 95 mm high, with developing gonothecae; PS65/278, one colony, c. 65 mm high; PS65/279, one colony, c. 100 mm high; PS65/280, few stems, c. 10 mm high; PS65/281, few stems, up to 15 mm high. Ecology and distribution. Species reported at depths between 10 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972, as Sertularella elongata) and 1958 m (Peña Cantero 2012); present material collected from 82 to 360 m. Antarctic- Kerguélen species (Peña Cantero 2012). Published as part of Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4570 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527