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Staurotheca pachyclada
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Description
Staurotheca pachyclada (Jäderholm, 1904)
(Fig. 9 g–h)
Material examined. ANT XV/3: 48-77, one colony, c. 50 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48-154, one colony, c. 45 mm high; 48-220, one colony, c. 25 mm high, with female gonothecae; 48-222, one colony, c. 25 mm high; ANT XXI/2: PS65/237, several stems, c. 130 mm high; PS65/265, several stems, c. 125 mm high, on gravel, with female gonothecae; PS65/336, one colony, c. 85 mm high.
Ecology and distribution. Previously found at depths from 42 (Stepanjants 1979, as Thuiaria juncea) to 1990 m (Peña Cantero in press); present material at 267– 583 m. Species with a circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero & Vervoort 2003).
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Identifiers
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. Soto & Peña, 2019
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.
- Stepanjants, S. D. (1979) Hydroids of the antarctic and subantarctic waters. In: Biological results of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 6. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei, 20, 1 - 200. [in Russian]
- 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