Symplectoscyphus weddelli Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 2002

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 :...

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Main Authors: Soto, Joan J., Peña, Álvaro L.
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Published: Zenodo 2019
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934981
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Summary: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