Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off George V Coast (East Antarctica)
Author
Peña Cantero, Álvaro L.
Author
Marzal, Marina Fresneda
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-26
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4441.1.7
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Antarctoscyphus spiralis
(
Hickson and Gravely, 1907
)
(
Fig. 3D
)
Symplectoscyphus spiralis
—
Briggs, 1938
: 34
–35.
Antarctoscyphus spiralis
—Peña Cantero
et al.
, 2017: 31–34, fig. 13 (synonymy).
Material examined.
29EV59
, a stem fragment
70 mm
long (IK–2009–0335);
63EV314
, a colony fragment
70 mm
long, with gonothecae (IK–2012–10434).
Remarks.
This is a well-known species, easily recognizable by the presence of three internal cusps situated at the embayments between the cusps of the hydrothecal aperture (
Fig. 3D
). See Peña Cantero
et al.
(2017) for a recent diagnosis.
Ecology and distribution.
Our material was collected from depths between 423 and
480 m
, and with gonothecae in January. Previously reported by
Briggs (1938)
, at depths between 99 and
720 m
, from Commonwealth Bay. Circum-Antarctic distribution (
Stepanjants 1979
).