Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)
Author
Soto, Joan J.
Author
Peña, Álvaro L.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-03-22
4570
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1
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journal article
27992
10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1
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1175-5326
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Antarctoscyphus grandis
(
Blanco, 1977
)
(
Fig. 10
e–g)
Material examined.
ANT XV/3
:
48-31
, one colony, c.
50 mm
high, with developing gonothecae;
ANT XVII/3
:
111- 5
, one colony, c.
45 mm
high;
111-9
, one colony, c.
60 mm
high, with gonothecae;
ANT XXI/2
:
PS65/121
, one colony, c.
40 mm
high, with gonothecae;
PS65/248
, one colony, c.
35 mm
high.
Ecology and distribution.
Previously reported at depths from
15 m
(
Naumov & Stepanjants 1972, as
Sertularella biformis
) to
1042 m
(Peña Cantero
et al.
2017); present material was collected between 62 and
287 m
.
Circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero
et al.
1997).