Symplectoscyphus weddelli Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 2002

• Main Authors: Soto, Joan J., Peña, Álvaro L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Leptothecata; Sertulariidae; Symplectoscyphus; Symplectoscyphus weddelli; Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Pena; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5934981; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934981

Symplectoscyphus weddelli Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002 (Fig. 11l, 12k) Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-168, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with developing gonothecae; 48-222, mass of stems, c. 50 mm high, with gonothecae; 48-276, few stems, up to 13 mm high, on Sc. nana; ANT XVII /3: 111-7, some stems, up to 11 mm high, with gonothecae; 111-9, some stems, up to 13 mm high, with gonothecae; 111-18, some stems, up to 10 mm high, on O. terranovae; 111-19, some stems, up to 20 mm high, on Sc. unifurcata, with gonothecae; ANT XXI /2: PS65/39, some stems, up to 10 mm high; PS65/121 few stems, up to 10 mm high, on O. tottoni and Sc. nana; PS65/174, some stems, up to 35 mm high, with gonothecae; PS65/237, some stems, up to 40 mm high, on sponge and Sc. nana; PS65/276, mass of stems, c. 50 mm high, with developing gonothecae; PS65/ 278, some stems, up to 15 mm high; PS65/281, some stems, up to 15 mm high, on O. terranovae. Ecology and distribution. Species previously known from depths between 60 (Peña Cantero 2017) to 390 m (Peña Cantero et al. 2002); present material, was collected from 62 to 417 m depth. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero 2017) with few records, reported here for the third time. 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 38, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527