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Staurotheca antarctica Hartlaub 1904

Description

Staurotheca antarctica Hartlaub, 1904

(Fig. 9a)

Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-168, mass of stems, c. 20 mm high; ANT XXI/2: PS65/292, one colony, c. 30 mm high, with male gonothecae.

Ecology and distribution. Species collected at depths between 55 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 866 m (Peña Cantero in press); present material from 228 to 598 m. Circum-Antarctic species (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).

Notes

Published as part of Soto, Joan J. & Peña, Álvaro L., 2019, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4570 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sertulariidae
Genus
Staurotheca
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Hartlaub
Species
antarctica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Staurotheca antarctica Hartlaub, 1904 sec. Soto & Peña, 2019

References

  • Hartlaub, C. (1904) Hydroiden. In: Expedition antarctique Belge. Resultats du voyage du S. Y. Belgica en 1897 - 1899. Rapports scientifiques, Zoologie, 1 - 19.
  • Pena Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W. (2003) Species of Staurotheca Allman, 1888 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Sertulariidae) from US Antarctic expeditions, with the description of three new species. Journal of Natural History, 37, 2653 - 2722. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930210155701