On a new Antarctic species of Symplectoscyphus Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Sertulariidae), with an annotated checklist of the Antarctic species of the genus
Author
Peña, Álvaro L.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2494
29
44
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.195709
c2c8f51a-8076-4772-9dae-b2cd9469f545
1175-5326
195709
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
).