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Staurotheca pachyclada

Description

Staurotheca pachyclada (Jäderholm, 1904)

(Fig. 3C)

Staurotheca pachyclada —Peña Cantero & Vervoort, 2003: 2698 –2702, figs 14–15 (synonymy).

Material examined. 29EV55 , a stem 300 mm high (IK–2009–0370).

Description. Stem erect, polysiphonic, 300 mm high, with some perisarc constrictions. Branching only present in upper half of stem, alternate, almost in one plane. Branches up to third order present, narrowed basally. Hydrothecae present over entire colony, but only visible in monosiphonic parts. Hydrothecae arranged in verticils of three hydrothecae, forming siX longitudinal rows. Hydrotheca cylindrical (Fig. 3C), immersed into branch for two-thirds of its volume. Hydrothecal aperture circular, forming an acute angle with long aXis of stem.

Ecology and distribution. Our material was collected at depths between 471 and 499 m in George V Basin.

Circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).

Notes

Published as part of Peña Cantero, Álvaro L. & Marzal, Marina Fresneda, 2018, Benthic hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from off George V Coast (East Antarctica), pp. 121-136 in Zootaxa 4441 (1) on pages 126-127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1301927

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Sertulariidae
Genus
Staurotheca
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Leptothecata
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Jaderholm
Species
pachyclada
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Staurotheca pachyclada (Jaderholm, 1904) sec. Cantero & Marzal, 2018

References

  • Jaderholm, E. (1904) Mitteilungen ueber einige von der Schwedischen Antarctic-Expedition 1901 - 1903 eingesammelte Hydroiden. Archives de Zoologie Experimentale et Generale, Series 4, 3 (Notes et revue 1), 1 - 14.
  • 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