Symplectoscyphus anae Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 2002

• 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; Symplectoscyphus; Symplectoscyphus anae; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934959; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887B7A44EFFD2E983FB23FC129DC9

Symplectoscyphus anae Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002 (Fig. 11a, 12a) Material examined. ANT XV/3 : 48-27 , several stems, up to 30 mm high, on dead octocoral; 48-77 , several stems, up to 40 mm high, on A. frigida and octocoral, with gonothecae; 48-197 , one colony, up to 10 mm high, on St. polarsterni 48-220 , several stems, c. 40 mm high, with gonothecae; ANT XVII/3 : 111-18 , several stems, up to 40 mm high, on undetermined hydrorhiza and O. terranovae , with gonothecae; ANT XXI/2 : PS65/166 , few stems, up to 9 mm high, on O. erratum PS65/174 , one colony, up to 14 mm high, on A. elongatus PS65/237 , one colony, up to 10 mm high, on S. lobata PS65/265 , several stems, up to 35 mm high, on St. polarsterni PS65/276 , few stems, up to 15 mm high; PS65/278 , some stems, up to 18 mm high; on B. subrufa and H. secundum; PS65/280 , few stems, up to 8 mm high; PS65/281 , several stems, up to 35 mm high. Ecology and distribution. Previously reported at depths between 20 (Naumov & Stepanjants 1972, as Symplectoscyphus curvatus ) and 1658 m (Peña Cantero in press ); material examined collected from 82 to 416 m. Species with circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero et al. 2002). 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