Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco, 1982

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

Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco, 1982

Symplectoscyphus exochus Blanco 1982: 39 –41, figs 1–7; 1985: 225–226, figs 1, 2; 1994: 202; Vervoort 1993: 239; Peña Cantero et al. 2002: 1525 –1529, fig. 4; Peña Cantero 2008: 460, fig. 2g; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009: 88, fig. 2f. Symplectoscyphus glacialis – Vervoort 1972b: 351 (in part).

Ecology. Shelf species, collected at depths from 15 ( Vervoort 1972b) to 634 m ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002). On muddy bottoms ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Epilithic on stone ( Peña Cantero 2010) and epibiotic on hydroids, bryozoans and polychaete tubes ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Basibiont for colonies of other hydroids ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002). Gonothecae: January ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002), February ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009); immature in March ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002).

Distribution. West Antarctic: Low Island ( Blanco 1982; Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009), Palmer Archipelago ( Vervoort 1972b; Blanco 1985), Bransfield Island and Bransfield Strait ( Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2009) and south and east coasts of the Weddell Sea ( Peña Cantero et al. 2002).