Symplectoscyphus cumberlandicus ( Jäderholm, 1905 ), Jaderholm, 1905

Peña, Álvaro L., 2010, On a new Antarctic species of Symplectoscyphus Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Sertulariidae), with an annotated checklist of the Antarctic species of the genus, Zootaxa 2494, pp. 29-44 : 35

Symplectoscyphus cumberlandicus ( Jäderholm, 1905)

Sertularella cumberlandica Jäderholm 1905: 27 , pl. 10, figs 8–11; Ritchie 1913: 10, 27, fig. 7; Blanco 1963: 178; Naumov & Stepanjants 1972: 34, 43, fig. 6; Stepanjants 1979: 79, pl. 14, fig. 1A–E.

Symplectoscyphus cumberlandicus – Stechow 1922: 148; 1923: 171; Yamada 1959: 59; Rees & Thursfield 1965: 128; Blanco 1984: 23 –24, pl. 17 figs 39–40, pl. 18 figs 41, 42, pl. 19 figs 43, 44, pl. 20 fig. 45; 1991: 12; Vervoort 1993: 239; Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1519 –1523, fig. 3; Peña Cantero 2006: 942, fig. 4f; 2008: 460, fig. 2e, f; 2010: 769, fig. 5b, c; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009: 87, fig. 2e.

? Sertularella cumberlandica – Stechow 1913: 13, 140, fig. 115.

Sertularella (Symplectoscyphus) liouvillei – Broch 1948: 5, 9–13, fig. 3b–d (in part).

Symplectoscyphus divaricatus – Blanco & Bellusci de Miralles 1972: 13 –16, figs 22–27.

Ecology. Shelf species, found at depths from 8 ( Naumov & Stepanjants 1972) to 380 m ( Peña Cantero 2010). On a wide range of sea bottoms, including bottoms of mud, sand, pebbles, stones, boulders and different mixed bottoms ( Jäderholm 1905; Ritchie 1913; Broch 1948; Naumov & Stepanjants 1972). Epibiotic on holothurians and ascidians and epilithic on pebbles and stones ( Naumov & Stepanjants 1972; Peña Cantero 2010). Gonothecae: February ( Peña Cantero 2010), May ( Jäderholm 1905; Ritchie 1913) and August ( Ritchie 1913).

Distribution. Circum-Antarctic ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002). West Antarctica: Cumberland Bay, in South Georgia ( Jäderholm 1905), Peter I Island ( Broch 1948; Blanco & Bellusci de Miralles 1972; Peña Cantero 2010), Low Island ( Blanco 1984), Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands (Peña Cantero 2006; 2008) and Bransfield Island, Antarctic Peninsula ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009). East Antarctica: McMurdo Sound and Cape Royds, in the Ross Sea ( Ritchie 1913) and Adélie Coast ( Naumov & Stepanjants 1972).