Symplectoscyphus frigidus Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002

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 : 36-37

Symplectoscyphus frigidus Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 2002

Symplectoscyphus glacialis – Broch 1948: 5, 9–13, figs 2d, e, 3a.

Symplectoscyphus sp. 5 Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995: 92 –94, fig. 41a–e. Symplectoscyphus sp. 7 Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995: 94 –96, fig. 42a–c. Symplectoscyphus frigidus Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1529 –1533, fig. 5.

Ecology. Shelf species, collected at depths between 86 ( Broch 1948) and 402 m ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002). On bottoms of detritus, mud, mud with sand, and stones ( Broch 1948; Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995; Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Epibiotic on hydroids and bryozoans ( Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995; Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Basibiont for colonies of other hydroids ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Gonothecae: January and February ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002).

Distribution. West Antarctic: Peter I and Bouvet islands ( Broch 1948), Shag Rocks, in the South Georgia region, and King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands ( Peña Cantero & García Carrascosa 1995) and the east coast of the Weddell Sea ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002).