Staurotheca frigida Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997
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Description
Staurotheca frigida Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997
(Fig. 9 c–d)
Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-50, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-63, mass of stems, c. 25 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-77, mass of stems, c. 20 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48- 189, mass of stems, c. 25 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-194, mass of stems, c. 30 mm high, with male gonothecae; 48-220, mass of stems, c. 30 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48-222, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with male gonothecae; ANT XXI/2: PS65/121, mass of stems, c. 35 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS65/166, mass of stems, c. 25 mm high, with male gonothecae; PS65/248, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with female gonothecae; PS65/274, mass of stems, c. 40 mm high, with male gonothecae.
Ecology and distribution. Species known from depths between 57 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 647 m (Soto Àngel & Peña Cantero 2015); present material collected from 234 to 360 m. Antarctic-Kerguélen species (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sertulariidae
- Genus
- Staurotheca
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Leptothecata
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Scientific name authorship
- Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort
- Species
- frigida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Staurotheca frigida Cantero, 1997 sec. Soto & Peña, 2019
References
- Svoboda, A., Stepanjants, S. & Smirnov, I. (1997) Two polar Hydractinia species (Cnidaria), epibiotic on two closely related brittle stars (Echinodermata): an example for taxonomic and ecological bipolarity. In: Battaglia, B., Valencia, J. & Walton, D. W. H. (Eds.), Antarctic Communities: Species, Structure and Survival. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 22 - 25
- 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
- Soto Angel, J. J. & Pena Cantero, A. L. (2015) On the benthic hydroids from the Scotia Arc (Southern Ocean): new insights into their biodiversity, ecology and biogeography. Polar Biology, 38, 983 - 1007. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00300 - 015 - 1660 - 9