Antarctoscyphus spiralis

• Main Authors: Soto, Joan J., Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Antarctoscyphus; Antarctoscyphus spiralis; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934957; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887B7A44EFFD2E983FD5DFBAC9F4C

Antarctoscyphus spiralis (Hickson & Gravely, 1907) (Fig. 10 h–j) Material examined. ANT XV/3 : 48-77 , one colony, c. 45 mm high; 48-274 , one colony, c. 75 mm high; 48-276 , one colony, c. 25 mm high; 48-297 , one colony, c. 20 mm high; ANT XXI/2 : PS65/121 , one colony, c. 80 mm high; PS65/132 , one colony, c. 65 mm high; PS65/166 , one colony, c. 10 mm high, on St. nonscripta PS65/253 , three stems, c. 60, 70, 75 mm high; PS65/265 , one colony, c. 65 mm high, and few stems, up to 20 mm high, on St. polarsterni PS65/274 , one colony, c. 75 mm high; PS65/278 , one colony, c. 30 mm high. Ecology and distribution. Previously reported at depths from 6 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972, as Sertularella spiralis ) to 2143 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2017); our material comes from depths between 119 and 417 m. Species with a circum-Antarctic distribution (Stepanjants 1979, as Sertularella spiralis ). 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 page 33, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527