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Staurotheca nonscripta Pena Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort 1997
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Description
Staurotheca nonscripta Peña Cantero, Svoboda & Vervoort, 1997
(Fig. 9f)
Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-58, few stems, c. 15 mm high; 48-77, some stems, up to 30 mm high; ANT XXI/ 2: PS65/166, some stems, up to 35 mm high; PS65/248, mass of stems, c. 140 mm high, with male gonothecae; PS65/265, some stems, up to 40 mm high; PS65/274, some stems, up to 45 mm high; PS65/280, some stems, up to 40 mm high; PS65/292 mass of stems, c. 75 mm high, with male gonothecae.
Ecology and distribution. Species reported at depths between 15 (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003) and 728 m
(Peña Cantero 2014a); material examined collected from 191 to 598 m. Antarctic-Patagonian 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 pages 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4570.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2608527
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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
- nonscripta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Staurotheca nonscripta 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
- Pena Cantero, A. L. (2014 a) Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from the continental shelf and slope off Queen Mary Coast (East Antarctica). Polar Biology, 37, 1711 - 1731. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00300 - 014 - 1556 - 0