Symplectoscyphus weddelli Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002

ÁLVARO L. PEÑA CANTERO, 2017, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Ross Sea (Antarctica) collected by the New Zealand Antarctic expedition BioRoss 2004 with RV Tangaroa, Zootaxa 4293 (1), pp. 1-65 : 46

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4293.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3511623

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scientific name

Symplectoscyphus weddelli Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002
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Symplectoscyphus weddelli Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002

( Figs 12 View FIGURE 12 I, 13B)

Symplectoscyphus weddelli Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1560 –1562, fig. 16; Peña Cantero, 2010a: 41 View Cited Treatment –42.

Material examined. Stn 53, fragment 10 mm long (MNCN 2.03/643); Stn 134, several incipient stems up to 13 mm high on tubes of benthic organism (NIWA 117588).

Description. Monosiphonic stems, up to 13 mm high. Typically unbranched (only three stems with primary branch). Stems divided into somewhat straight internodes. Hydrothecae alternately arranged in approximately one plane.

Hydrotheca ( Figs 12 View FIGURE 12 I, 13B) roughly cylindrical, gradually curved abcaudally. Adcauline wall convex; without inflexion point where adcauline wall becomes free. Abcauline wall roughly straight basally and slightly concave at distal half. Cusp of hydrothecal aperture sharp and separated by deep embayments.

Measurements (in µm). Hydrothecae: length abcauline wall 350–400, length free part of adcauline wall 280–290, length adnate part of adcauline wall 280–350, length adcauline wall 560–570, diameter at aperture 160–180, maximum diameter 190, diameter at diaphragm 120. Cnidome: larger microbasic mastigophores, range 9.0–10.0 x 2.5–3.0, mean 9.5±0.4 x 2.7±0.2 (n=6); ratio, range 3.3–3.8, mean 3.6± 0.2 (n=6).

Remarks. Even when the infertile condition of the present material prevents a definitive identification, there are no significant differences with the original description of S. weddelli .

Ecology and distribution. Shelf species, collected at depths from 119 to 390 m ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002); present material between 60 and 197 m, epibiotic on tube of benthic organism.

Species reported only along the south and east coasts of the Weddell Sea ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002); studied material is the first record from the Ross Sea and East Antarctica , collected in Robertson Bay and off Cape Hallett, pointing to a circum-Antarctic distribution.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Hydrozoa

SuperOrder

Leptothecata

Order

Leptothecata

Family

Sertulariidae

Genus

Symplectoscyphus

Loc

Symplectoscyphus weddelli Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002

ÁLVARO L. PEÑA CANTERO 2017
2017
Loc

Symplectoscyphus weddelli Peña Cantero et al. 2002 : 1560

Pena 2010: 41
Pena 2002: 1560
2002
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